Hither 0.2.0

Agents that need you

• Needs you — agents waiting for your permission or answer sit above the tabs, longest wait first. Click one to bring its terminal forward.
• Menu bar count — counts the agents waiting on you. Already using Hither? You keep the count of all unseen items; switch in Settings → General.
• One reminder — an agent still waiting after 2 minutes sends one notification. Never, 1, 2, 5 or 10 minutes in Settings → General.
• ⌥⌘J — from any app, brings forward the agent that has waited longest; press again for the next one. Record another shortcut or turn it off in Settings → General.
• Codex, Copilot CLI and opencode — their sessions show next to Claude Code's. Install the hooks in Settings → Connections. Copilot CLI and opencode are in beta.

Pull requests

• Sign in with GitHub — no gh needed; the token stays in your Keychain. gh keeps working as before.
• New panel — tabs with counts, one list per lane, Mark these as seen. Turn off the lanes you do not use.
• More to see — Ready to Merge and Merge Conflicts for your pull requests, mentions and assignments, review requests that turn orange after 24 hours, and New Activity from your GitHub notifications.
• Search — start typing, or ⌘F, to filter a lane by title, repository, #number, @person or branch.
• Row menu — Copy Branch and Checkout in your terminal.
• New items blink — a new review request, failed check or waiting agent blinks the menu bar icon three times, and the icon keeps a dot until you open the panel.

Everything else

• The panel opens under the menu bar icon on every screen, also with a Retina and a non-Retina display side by side.
• New installs refresh every minute; opening the panel refreshes a list older than 30 seconds, waking from sleep refreshes at once.
• The last list shows at launch; the menu bar icon keeps a dot for unseen critical items and dims while a source fails.
• If macOS blocks Hither's notifications, the panel and Settings → General say so, with a button that opens System Settings.
• Settings in three tabs: General, GitHub and Connections.
• Pull request summaries run Claude with read-only tools and no MCP servers; every window runs under a strict content security policy.
• One download for Apple silicon and Intel Macs.

Coming from 0.1.2? The key that signs updates changed, so 0.1.2 shows this update but cannot install it from the panel. Download Hither.dmg below, or run brew upgrade --cask hither. From 0.2.0 on, updates install from the panel again.

Hither 0.1.2

• Pick your terminal — Settings → Suggestions: iTerm, Terminal, Ghostty or Warp for Open in Claude.
• Right-click a row — Copy Link, Snooze for a Day (it comes back as new), Mute owner/repo.
• Notification controls — Settings → General: a switch per lane, and quiet hours when only the menu bar count changes.
• Your GitHub profile — avatar, stars and followers at the top of the panel; click your name to open your profile.
• API quota — Settings → GitHub → API: show what is left never, when low or always.
• Repository checklist — Settings → GitHub lists the repositories Hither has seen, with counts; uncheck to hide.
• Offline — a failed refresh says how old the list on screen is.
• Claude sessions open in their own terminal — clicking a session, its notification or "Go to …" brings forward the terminal it runs in. Press Update on the Agents banner once so the hooks report it.

Hither 0.1.1 offers this update in the panel. Or brew upgrade --cask hither.

Hither 0.1.1

• Keyboard navigation — ↑ ↓ move between rows, Return opens one, ← → switch lanes, ⌘R refreshes, ⌘, opens Settings.
• Author avatars on pull requests and issues, with a coloured initial when an avatar cannot load.
• Open at login — a switch in Settings → General.
• One copy at a time — opening Hither again no longer starts a second menu bar icon.
• Agents — rows show what Claude said ("Claude needs your permission to use Bash"); finished turns stay quiet and leave the list after 30 minutes.
• A larger settings button in the panel.

Hither 0.1.0 offers this update in the panel. Or brew upgrade --cask hither.

Hither 0.1.0

First release.

Hither is a macOS menu bar app that answers three questions at a glance: what came to you, what happened to what you shipped, and what your agents are doing.

• Incoming — pull requests and issues in your repositories, reviews waiting on you, changes requested on yours
• Outgoing — failing checks on your pull requests and main branches, Laravel Forge deployments, new and spiking Sentry errors
• Agents — Claude Code sessions (working, waiting for you, finished) and pull requests opened by coding agents
• Suggestions — one-click actions, such as opening Claude Code in the right folder when a check fails

Install

brew install --cask erenbekman/tap/hither

Or download Hither_0.1.0_aarch64.dmg below. Signed with Developer ID and notarized by Apple. Hither updates itself from here.

Requires macOS 13 or later on Apple silicon, and the GitHub CLI signed in (gh auth login).