Wedge 0.1.0 — first release

First public release of Wedge — a tiny macOS menubar app that keeps your Mac awake when the lid is closed and turns off the internal display in the meantime, so you can actually trust closing the lid during long AI-agent sessions, builds, downloads, or ssh work.

Highlights

• Pull-cord interaction — drag the menubar icon down, watch a braided cord with a brass-bead handle extend with cursor physics. Past a click threshold the bead glows gold and the lid latches open.
• pmset disablesleep toggle — driven by an admin password stored in your Keychain, prompted once.
• Lid-aware brightness — when you close the lid with Wedge active, the internal display drops to brightness 0. Open it back up and your previous brightness returns.
• Localized — English and Русский.
• Launch at login — SMAppService integration.
• Crash-safe — if Wedge dies mid-cycle, brightness is restored automatically on next launch.

Install

1. Download Wedge.zip from this release, unzip, drag Wedge.app to /Applications/.
2. First launch: right-click → Open to bypass Gatekeeper. Wedge is open-source and not signed with a paid Developer ID — that's a one-time prompt.
3. The first time you pull the cord, Wedge will ask once for your macOS admin password (needed for pmset). It's stored in your Keychain.

Requirements

• macOS 14 Sonoma or later
• Apple Silicon recommended

Known limitations

• The brightness feature relies on a private DisplayServices symbol, so Wedge cannot ship on the Mac App Store. The Mac will still sleep at very low battery regardless of pmset (hardware-enforced).
• On Macs with no internal display (Mac mini / Studio / Pro), the brightness step is a no-op — everything else works.

Source

Full source at https://github.com/wwaannttyy/Wedge — MIT licensed. Build it yourself with ./build.sh release.