What is huginn?

Huginn is a local activity dashboard for people who run several AI coding agents at once, like Claude Code or Codex, often across different terminal windows or project folders. Instead of tabbing between many terminals to check on each agent, Huginn watches all of them from one console and shows which ones need attention, which are still working, and which have finished or hit an error. It also shows lighter, app-level activity for desktop apps like Claude Desktop and ChatGPT Desktop, though it cannot see the actual conversation content for those, since that lives in the cloud. Everything runs locally on the user's own machine. The only outside communication happens when the tool itself calls Claude or Codex on the user's behalf, using the same authentication the user already has. A command starts a background service and opens a web dashboard, and other commands can reopen that dashboard, run a self-contained fictional demo for safely taking screenshots, show a one-time status table in the terminal, or install hooks so state changes are detected almost instantly. There is also a native menu bar app for macOS and a tray app for Windows that manage the background service and show an attention count. Each tracked terminal session is watched only, not controlled, by default. Sending an actual command or interrupting a session requires explicitly switching that session into a separate steering mode first, and even then, every command must be confirmed by typing yes before it is sent, with confirmations that expire quickly and cannot be reused. The dashboard sorts sessions so the ones needing a person's attention appear first, and clicking a session can jump to its exact terminal tab, show a short transcript preview, or open a chat panel where a person can ask questions about what an agent is currently doing. Huginn is installed and run using the uv Python tool, and its own skill file can be linked into other agent setups so agents can query it directly using a small set of commands like checking the roster or inspecting a specific session.