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I make Clamshell, a small Mac menu bar app for keeping local work running with the MacBook lid closed. The awkward part of explaining it: an agent that looks stuck can mean several different things. Lid sleep, lost network, an error, or a permission prompt all look similar from a

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Keep Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, builds, and terminal jobs running when a MacBook lid closes. No external display, sudo, or admin access.

Keep Claude Code Running With MacBook Lid Closed | Clamshell Clamshell All guides Keep Claude Code running with the lid closed. By Matyas Rathonyi . Updated September 5, 2026. Guides You start a long agent run, close the MacBook, and come back to a stalled session. Closing the lid normally puts the Mac to sleep, pausing local work; network connections may also disconnect. This guide covers running lid-closed without an external display or admin rights, and how to tell whether sleep is actually your problem. Claude Code stops when you switch to your phone? Anthropic's Remote Control documentati

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