Pushary Isle: your agents' questions, in your Mac's notch
Pushary Isle is a small native Mac app. When Claude Code, Codex or Cursor stops to ask you something, the question shows up in your notch and one shortcut answers it.
You ask Claude Code to ship a migration. You switch to your browser to read something. Ten minutes later you come back and the agent has done nothing. It stopped nine minutes ago to ask if it could run bun run db:migrate, in a terminal tab you were not looking at.
If you run two or three agents at once, this happens all day. Pushary Isle is our fix for it.
Key takeaways
- Isle is a small Mac app. When an agent needs you, the question shows up in your Mac's notch.
- One shortcut answers it from any app: ⌃⌘Y approves, ⌃⌘N denies.
- Step away and the same question reaches your phone. Answer it once, anywhere, and it closes everywhere.
What it does
Isle lives in the notch at the top of your screen. Most of the time it is a thin black pill that says what your agents are up to.
When an agent stops to ask you something, the notch opens on its own, unless you are already looking at that agent's terminal. You see which agent is asking, the command it wants to run, and why. Press ⌃⌘Y and the agent keeps going. Press ⌃⌘N and it doesn't. Both work from whatever app you are in, so you don't lose your place. Want to say why you said no? Click Deny with a reason and type it. The agent gets your note.
Not every question is yes or no. Codex might ask which environment to deploy to. The options show up as buttons. Click the notch, or press ⌃⌘P, and ⌘1, ⌘2 or ⌘3 picks one. If the agent wants a typed answer, you type it right there.
See every agent at once
Open the notch and you get a list of every session: which project, what the agent is doing, and whether it needs you. The most urgent one sits at the top.
With three agents running, you stop cycling through terminal tabs to find the one that is stuck. And when you need more context before you say yes, Isle brings that session's terminal to the front. Turn on exact tab jumping in Settings, and in Terminal and iTerm2 it lands on the right tab.
Walk away, and the question follows you
Isle and the Pushary phone app share the same questions. Go make coffee, and the migration question reaches your lock screen. Approve it there. The notch clears it too, so nothing waits for a second answer when you get back.
You choose where approvals go with the approval mode, right in the notch:
- When I'm out shows the card on your Mac and keeps your phone quiet while you are sitting there.
- Every time sends it to both.
- Updates only alerts your phone, and you decide in the agent.
- Terminal leaves approvals to the agent's own prompt.
Setup takes a couple of minutes
Download the app, or install it with Homebrew:
brew install --cask pushary/tap/pusharySign in, and Isle finds the agents already on your Mac. It sets up Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, VS Code, OpenCode and Hermes for you. No config files to edit. Pairing your phone is optional.
The setup guide has every step and every shortcut.
Small and native
Isle is written in Swift, with SwiftUI and AppKit. The download is under 10 MB. In our September 3 test (one cold start, five minutes, no agent traffic) it used about 50 MB of memory at idle. It runs on macOS 14 or later, on Apple silicon and Intel, and on Macs without a notch it sits at the top of the screen.
What it costs
Isle is included in every Pushary agent plan. Plans start at $9.99 a month, with a 3-day free trial. If you already pay for Pushary, just sign in.
If you mostly work in Claude Code, the Claude Code notifications page shows how the phone side works. For Codex, see Codex notifications.
Frequently asked questions
Can I approve Claude Code from my Mac without switching to the terminal?
Yes. With Pushary Isle running, Claude Code's permission question opens in your Mac's notch. Press ⌃⌘Y to approve or ⌃⌘N to deny from any app, and Claude Code carries on. Click the notch first and ⌘Y and ⌘N work too.
If I answer in the notch, does my phone still buzz for the same question?
No. The notch and the phone share one question. Answer it on either one and it closes on the other, so you never answer the same thing twice. Whether your phone gets the question at all while you sit at your Mac depends on your approval mode.
Can the notch shortcuts answer a question by accident while I type?
No. A plain Y or N does nothing. Every key that answers a question needs the Command key, so typing in an editor, a chat or a terminal never answers a waiting question.