Cyclist: navigate AeroSpace workspaces and native fullscreen Spaces as one chain

[pszypowicz]

I use AeroSpace for tiling, but I also end up in native fullscreen a lot - videos, games, sometimes just a maximized app. The two worlds don't navigate as one: workspace bindings stop at fullscreen Spaces, and getting in and out means falling back to the native swipe and losing your place. The Goodies-page tools (BetterTouchTool, Hammerspoon, SwipeAeroSpace, aerospace-swipe, and recently AeroKit) solve swiping between workspaces, but fullscreen Spaces stay outside the loop.

I built Cyclist to close that gap: it treats AeroSpace workspaces and native fullscreen Spaces as one chain, so workspace 1 ... workspace N, fullscreen apps walk in Mission Control order with Ctrl+Left/Right or the normal three-finger Spaces swipe - instantly, without the animation.

How it works:

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• Workspace steps go over AeroSpace's socket. Native hops post the same synthetic dock-swipe gesture Space Rabbit worked out, so any distance lands in ~40ms with no transition animation. Crossing from a fullscreen Space to a workspace chains the two.
• The real trackpad swipe is read from the WindowServer's gesture stream and consumed before the Dock sees it, so "Swipe between full-screen applications" stays enabled in System Settings but drives the chain instead of the animated transition. One swipe is one discrete step (no continuous finger tracking - AeroKit has that if you want it).
• The overlay in the demo is a built-in HUD (demoHud setting), not a separate keystroke visualizer - external ones can't show events an active event tap consumes.

Honest caveats before you try it:

• macOS 26 (Tahoe) only. Pre-1.0, so details may still shift between releases; releases are Developer ID signed and notarized.
• Cyclist is primarily a text-only Cmd+Tab replacement (that's why it exists), but every piece is optional: turn the app switcher off in Settings and it runs as just the chain navigator. If you keep it on, the switcher understands the chain: windows in fullscreen Spaces and in hidden workspaces get their own rows, and selecting one jumps there.
• It takes over Ctrl+Left/Right and the horizontal Spaces swipe while running (both toggleable, and everything reverts on quit). Needs Accessibility; Screen Recording is optional and only unlocks window titles from other Spaces.

Install: brew install --cask pszypowicz/tap/cyclist (or grab the DMG from the releases), then enable Settings > AeroSpace - the integration is opt-in and falls back to plain native behavior whenever AeroSpace isn't running.

Repo: https://github.com/pszypowicz/cyclist - bug reports and feedback are very welcome there. Sharing here because this community is where I would look for it

[ifeelsam]

this is awesome, kudos!