Built with Claude Code, for Claude Code: each session gets its own LCD key on a Logitech keypad

What it is: Orbtile, a macOS menu-bar app that gives every Claude Code session a key on the Logitech MX Creative Keypad. Each key shows the session's state as an animated orb, plus the latest streamed line. The one that needs you glows. With the opt-in keypad approvals you can allow, deny or answer a question from the keys, and the on-screen dialog always stays. How it was built: coding agents running in parallel sessions wrote most of it. Claude Code (Opus) did the USB HID protocol work, a renderer that fits each key frame into a 4 KB JPEG at up to 30 fps, and the Claude Code plugin (hooks over a local Unix socket) with its tests. Codex helped with parts of 0.2. I wrote the specs, tested on the hardware and reviewed. What I learned: the hooks carry the state, but the transcript is the only live source of the text, including the thinking summaries you see in the desktop app. - https://medium.com/p/71719c7c277c Free beta for macOS 14+ on Apple silicon (not notarized yet): https://orbtile.com