Terms

coffee-bar is free software under the Apache 2.0 Licence. This page says in plain English what that means for you. The Licence is the text that binds; this page explains it.

What coffee-bar does

It holds a sleep assertion while a coding agent is working, so your Mac stays awake. It releases that assertion when every agent is waiting on a human. It holds no display assertion by default, so your screen still sleeps on its normal schedule.

What coffee-bar does not do

• It does not save, back up, or recover your work.
• It does not guarantee your Mac stays awake. macOS, another application, or an administrator policy can sleep the machine whatever coffee-bar asks.
• It does not keep the Mac awake with the lid closed. That needs a privileged helper, and the app never installs one and never becomes one. Where lid-closed mode is available, you arm it yourself from your own shell with sudo, and you can revert it the same way.
• It does not read your agent conversations.
• It does not change what your agent does, and it never answers a prompt for you.

No warranty

coffee-bar is provided as is, with no warranty of any kind. If it fails to hold your Mac awake, or holds it awake when you did not want it to, you carry that outcome. The binding text is the Apache 2.0 Licence, sections 7 and 8. A copy of the Licence ships inside the app and lives in the repository.

Who makes it

coffee-bar is a personal project by Carlos Eduardo Arango Gutierrez, released under Apache 2.0. It is not an NVIDIA product. NVIDIA does not endorse, support, or warrant it.

Report a bug

Open an issue at the issue tracker. Include the version shown at the bottom of the panel, your macOS version, what you expected, and what happened instead.

This page describes v0.3.1.