Show HN: Keep Mac awake while your agent works even with screen off, lid closed

Category: cli-tool

Tags: macos, power-management, menu-bar

Score: 5.8/10 (Innovation: 4, Technical: 6, Documentation: 7, Utility: 6)

Macchiato is a macOS menu bar utility that prevents the Mac from sleeping, even with the lid closed, via a simple toggle. It targets users running long-lived agents, builds, or downloads, combining an IOKit assertion with pmset configuration through a privileged helper. The project is interesting for its clean user experience around a system-level power management need.

Target audience: backend devs, devops, data engineers

Repository: https://github.com/ObservedObserver/Macchiato · Swift · Apache-2.0

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