Codex Pacer: agent-reported real-time progress tracking for Claude Code
Disastrous_Reward644 · reddit · 2026-11-09
A Reddit developer built Codex Pacer, an open-source (GitHub, v4.3.1) real-time progress tracker for Claude Code.
The core idea: instead of guessing from elapsed time, the agent itself estimates its progress and reports it to Pacer in real time, displayed in a Dynamic Island-style UI. Pacer understands Claude Code's task state machine and knows when background tasks are still running rather than falsely marking them complete.
Key features:
- Works with Claude Code, Codex, and DeepSeek Harness
- macOS and Windows, local or SSH tasks
- One-click setup
- Especially useful for monitoring multiple agents running in parallel from one place
Related event: Codex Pacer: Open-Source Tool Lets Coding Agents Self-Report Progress(2 posts)→
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