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Clawake — Development skill for Claude Code

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Keep your Mac awake, even with the lid closed.

How to install Clawake

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open ItaiZeilig/clawake and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Clawake does

Keep your Mac awake, even with the lid closed. Tiny native menu-bar app for long-running tasks: Claude Code, builds, servers, SSH, downloads.

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README

Clawake

**Keep your Mac awake, even with the lid closed.**

A tiny, native macOS menu bar app. Shut the lid and your Mac keeps working, so a Claude Code session, an agent run, a build, a local server, or an SSH connection stays alive instead of freezing when the Mac would sleep. It works with the lid closed (no external display needed), and you can reconnect from anywhere.

![macOS 13+](https://img.shields.io/badge/macOS-13%2B-1d1d1f?logo=apple&logoColor=white) ![Swift 5.9](https://img.shields.io/badge/Swift-5.9-f05138?logo=swift&logoColor=white) ![Universal](https://img.shields.io/badge/Universal-Apple%20Silicon%20%26%20Intel-555) ![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-3fa46a) [![Latest release](https://img.shields.io/github/v/release/ItaiZeilig/clawake?color=e8854a)](https://github.com/ItaiZeilig/clawake/releases/latest)

[**Download**](https://github.com/ItaiZeilig/clawake/releases/latest) · [Features](#features) · [How it works](#how-it-works) · [Build from source](#build-from-source)

Clawake keeping a MacBook awake inside a bag

Why

Close your MacBook lid and macOS sleeps, which drops everything: your Claude Code run stops, your build halts, your server goes offline, your remote session dies. Clawake keeps the Mac awake so none of that happens. Start a long Claude Code session, shut the laptop, walk away, and pick it back up from anywhere.

It is deliberately small. It lives only in the menu bar (a little car icon), has no Dock icon, weighs about 2 MB, and does one thing well. No Electron, no background bloat, no account.

Features


Works with the lid closed	Keeps the Mac awake through a shut lid, with no external display required.
Your session survives	A Claude Code run, agent task, build, server, or SSH session keeps going instead of freezing when th