Pet Halo 0.1.0 Beta 4
Pet Halo is an independent, unofficial macOS companion for Codex. Beta 4
restores the Pet Ring arc opening for the current Codex Desktop layout while
preserving the existing Pet center, visual-center calibration, Usage
presentation, and fallback hierarchy.
Highlights
- Activity cards above the Pet select the upper arc opening, and activity cards
below the Pet select the lower arc opening. - The current Codex Desktop Pet-spanning Accessibility container is excluded
from activity-direction resolution. - Narrow voice and resize controls are excluded from activity-direction
resolution. - Multiple activity cards on the same side are treated as one directional
stack. Mixed-side activity remains ambiguous and retains the prior opening
instead of guessing. - Pet selection, midpoint tracking, saved visual-center offset, ring radii,
Usage semantics, and the Pet → calibrated-window → free-floating hierarchy
are unchanged.
Compatibility boundary
The candidate was prepared against Codex Desktop 26.727.40816 (6067). Pet
Halo reads only the existing Accessibility window role, subrole, visibility,
position, and size geometry required by Pet following. It does not inspect
window titles, conversation content, screenshots, or OCR.
Requirements
- macOS 14.0 or later on Apple silicon or Intel.
- Supported Codex CLI and Desktop versions listed in
docs/COMPATIBILITY.md. - Accessibility permission only when following is enabled.
Distribution boundary
This is Beta software distributed as an Unsigned Developer Preview. The
manually gated GitHub workflow publishes it only from reviewed main, with the
new v0.1.0-beta.4 tag and bundle build 4, after the unsigned artifact,
manifest, release notes, checksums, and source commit pass validation.
Pet-Halo-0.1.0-beta.4-unsigned-universal.zip is not signed with a Developer ID
certificate and is not notarized by Apple. macOS may block its first launch.
Verify SHA256SUMS, the GitHub source, and repository provenance before deciding
whether to override Gatekeeper. A future signed/notarized artifact must use a
new tag and build number; it must not replace this release.