Botsitting: run AI agents without leaving your Mac open

You kick off a long task in Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor. It’s going to churn for forty minutes: reading files, running tests, fixing what breaks. You’d like a coffee.

You have two bad options:

• Leave the Mac open. One curious colleague, cat, or toddler, and a stray keystroke lands in the agent’s prompt, or a click closes the terminal.
• Lock the screen. Now nobody can see the work, the display may sleep, and when you get back you have to reconstruct what happened.

Botsitting

We call the middle ground botsitting: the agent keeps working in full view, and nobody can touch it.

That’s what Wardlume does. Press ⌘⇧L and a glass ward rises over your live desktop. The screen stays readable, so anyone nearby can watch the agent work. Keyboard, mouse, trackpad, and gestures are locked at the macOS event-tap level. Your Mac stays awake so the ward (and your agent) holds.

When you’re back, rest a finger on Touch ID, or double-press your Apple Watch, and you’re exactly where you left off.

And if someone tries anyway

A wrong touch springs a reaction: a stern ACCESS DENIED, a glowering wizard, or a grumpy old man, with sound if you like. Or drop in your own image. It’s surprisingly effective at coffee shops.

Safe by design

• There’s always a way out: Touch ID, Apple Watch, your password, or ⌘⌥Esc Force Quit (which macOS reserves).
• Unplugging a monitor never unlocks it.
• It’s local-only: no servers, no analytics, no accounts.

Get Wardlume. It’s free for personal use.

Download Wardlume. Free for personal use.