A painted solar eclipse in a red and gold sky over a classical city, with philosophers on a terrace below. A painted full moon over dark trees, reflected in still water.
Antoine Caron, Dionysius the Areopagite Converting the Pagan Philosophers, 1570s. J. Paul Getty Museum, 85.PB.117. CC0, Getty Open Content. Adam Elsheimer, The Flight into Egypt (detail), 1609. Alte Pinakothek, Munich, inv. 216. Public domain scan, Yorck Project via Wikimedia Commons.

Agent Auto-Continue

macOS menu-bar app · for coding agents

Your coding agent hits its usage limit at midnight. The limit resets at 3am. You are asleep. Agent Auto-Continue sends the “Continue” for you, right on time.

Download for macOS Support on Ko-fi
  • macOS 13 Ventura or later
  • Apple Silicon and Intel
  • Signed and notarized

Free and open source. View it on GitHub

The Agent Auto-Continue menu-bar rail. The Claude Code session "Fix the flaky auth tests" is chosen with "When free" selected, because Claude Code is limited until 03:00. Below, the queue: a Codex continuation running its second turn of six, then Continues for Claude Code and T3 Code. The Agent Auto-Continue menu-bar rail. The Claude Code session "Fix the flaky auth tests" is chosen with "When free" selected, because Claude Code is limited until 03:00. Below, the queue: a Codex continuation running its second turn of six, then Continues for Claude Code and T3 Code.
Pick when, press Continue. The queue sits below.
The conversation picker, listing recent threads from T3 Code, Claude Code and Codex in one list, newest first. The conversation picker, listing recent threads from T3 Code, Claude Code and Codex in one list, newest first.
Every agent you use, in one list.

How it works

  1. Pick a thread

    Conversations from T3 Code, Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and the Claude and ChatGPT desktop apps, in one list, most recent first.

  2. Write the nudge

    Usually just “Continue”. Anything you would type into the thread yourself works.

  3. Choose when

    Quick picks for +5 min, +30 min, +1 hour or tomorrow morning, an exact date and time, or as soon as the usage limit resets.

Built to never double-send

Sending a message to an agent twice is worse than not sending it at all, so the app is careful.

  • Re-checks the thread before sending, and cancels if it is gone, archived, or you already replied.
  • Never retries an interrupted or ambiguous send. It marks it unconfirmed and only reads the thread to check.
  • Keeps its queue through quitting, restarts and sleep, and catches up on anything it missed.
  • Reaches each agent through its own local interface. No remote service of its own, no simulated keystrokes, no changes to the agent apps.

Also built in

  • Keeps going on its own: up to a turn limit, until you stop it, or until the agent says a stop phrase such as “TASK COMPLETE”.
  • Skips a send while the agent is still at its usage limit, and can start the moment the limit resets.
  • Optional remote control from a phone or another agent, through a token-protected API and MCP server, on this Mac or over Tailscale.
  • Can keep the Mac awake while queued work waits or runs.

Guides

Short pages on the things people actually search for, plus the docs.

Support this app

Buy me a coffee

Agent Auto-Continue is a side project. If it saves you a night of idle agent time, a coffee keeps it moving.

Support on Ko-fi

Opens ko-fi.com/velvetacorn in a new tab.

Credits

Logo moon: Albrecht Altdorfer, The Battle of Alexander at Issus (detail of the crescent), 1529. Alte Pinakothek, Munich, inv. 688. Public domain scan, Google Art Project via Wikimedia Commons.