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Hold My Lid

Close the lid. Keep coding. Hold My Lid keeps your Mac awake while Claude Code, Codex, and your other agents finish the job — lid shut, in your bag.

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Cost / License

  • Pay once
  • Proprietary

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  • Mac
  • Homebrew
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  1.  Ad-free
  2.  No registration required
  3.  Works Offline
  4.  Dark Mode
  5.  Support for Keyboard Shortcuts
  6.  Sits in the menu bar

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What is Hold My Lid?

Close the lid. Keep coding. Hold My Lid keeps your Mac awake while Claude Code, Codex, and your other agents finish the job — lid shut, in your bag.

A keep-awake app that actually understands your agents.

  • Agent-driven wake lock: Holds the wake assertions only while a watched agent is working. Idle agents let the Mac sleep.
  • Accurate state via hooks: Lifecycle hooks report Working / Idle per session for Claude Code, Codex and OpenCode.
  • Battery guardrails: Configurable cut-off threshold, “only when plugged in” mode, and Low Power Mode respect.
  • Display control: Turn the display off on lid close, while agents run, or N seconds after they finish.
  • Notifications & chimes: Banner + one of 10 bundled sounds when it engages, finishes, or hits your battery limit.
  • Menu-bar dropdown: Live status, battery, watched-agent sessions, and pause-for-30m / 1h, one click away.
  • Global shortcut: Toggle the whole thing on or off from anywhere.
  • Honest about limits: Same documented assertions as Amphetamine. We tell you exactly when it can’t guarantee staying awake.