October Lantern — Development skill for Claude Code
A floating lantern on your Mac for every coding agent you run: see who needs you, reply, start sessions and tasks.
How to install October Lantern
This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no
exact command to give. Open october-dev/october-lantern and copy the folder into
~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.
What October Lantern does
A floating lantern on your Mac for every coding agent you run: see who needs you, reply, start sessions and tasks. Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, OpenCode and more.
Alternatives in Development
- Hapi — App for Claude Code / Codex / Gemini / OpenCode, vibe coding anytime, anywhere 3.6k ★
- Agent Of Empires — Manage multiple Claude Code, OpenCode agents from either TUI or Web for easy access on mobile 3.1k ★
- Nexting — Remote control for Claude Code, Codex, Grok, and Cursor on Mac or PC 1.3k ★
README
Your agents work. You get your day back.
A little light at the edge of your Mac that glows when an AI coding agent needs you.
Read what it said, send a reply, and get back to what you were doing.
macOS 14+ · Apple silicon & Intel · Free forever · No account needed
Website & live demo · Release notes · Get help
Less checking. More getting things done.
Claude is working in one window. Codex is waiting in another. October finished ten minutes ago.
Lantern watches tools like Claude Code, Codex, October, and Cursor, and brings them together in one quiet place. Keep your favorite agents and terminals, and start them exactly as you do today. Lantern finds supported sessions automatically.
| When this happens… | Lantern helps you… |
|---|---|
| An agent finishes or needs a reply | See the lantern glow, with a count of new things waiting for you. |
| You want to know what happened | Open the conversation, including messages and summaries of tool activity. |
| You have an answer |
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