Argus for Mac · Free for individuals · Public beta

See what your AI agents do.

Argus shows every AI coding agent on your Mac, where it connects, and (with file & command capture on) what your terminal agents read and run.

Download for Mac Apple Silicon · macOS 13+ · 96 MB
Signed and notarized Updates itself

On an Intel Mac? That build is on the way. Tell me when it's ready

Illustration of the Agents pane, with example activity.

Recognizes the agents you already use
Claude Code Claude Desktop Cursor OpenAI Codex Gemini CLI Antigravity Windsurf GitHub Copilot CLI Cline (VS Code) Aider OpenCode Goose and many more
What you get

Know what each agent did, and decide what it may do.

See every agent

A live list of the AI assistants on your Mac, including ones you installed and forgot, and where in the world their connections go.

Catch agents going for secrets

Argus flags when an agent opens your cloud keys, tokens or other sensitive files, or tries to send a secret off your Mac. Switch a channel to Block and it stops terminal agents from reading them.

Replay any session

Step through a recent agent session to see what happened and what left your machine. Session history stays on your Mac for 30 days.

Before you start

What you need, and what leaves your Mac.

What you need

  • An Apple Silicon Mac (M1 or newer). Not sure? Open the Apple menu → About This Mac. If the Chip line starts with Apple M (M1, M2, M3, M4 or later), you're set.
  • macOS 13 Ventura or later.
  • An admin account, to approve macOS prompts and enter your password during setup.

What leaves your Mac

The contents of your source files, and the contents of what your agents send and receive, are not sent to us.

Argus sends us app health signals, usage counts, and a log of what your agents did (for example, whether an action was allowed or blocked). This is linked to your Argus account email.

The full list, how long we keep it, and how to have it deleted: Argus community privacy notice.

Verify your download (optional)

The app and disk image are signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so Gatekeeper checks them automatically. To confirm the file independently, its SHA-256 is:

fca80acfa22154d43e315380ded7e575e2a20a7c45c87d9eaa3d88399f9b0c60

Check it in Terminal:

# should print the hash above shasum -a 256 ~/Downloads/aegisbox-v1.2.4-darwin-arm64.dmg
Install

Install in four steps.

1

Install

Open the .dmg and drag Argus into Applications.

2

Open it from Applications

Launch Argus from your Applications folder, not from the disk image. When macOS asks about an app downloaded from the internet, click Open.

3

Follow the setup

Pick the agents you want watched, then click Turn on and approve the two macOS prompts. Restart your Mac if Argus asks you to.

macOS may show Background Items Added. That's Argus.

Optional: turn on file & command capture to see what terminal agents read and run. To stop them reading secrets, switch a channel to Block.

4

Reopen your AI tools

Quit and reopen Claude, Cursor or any agent that was already running, so Argus can watch it.

Want to see what agents send, not just where? Turn on Look inside what your agents send in Settings → Privacy & Permissions, then reopen your agents again.

Hit a snag? Tell us.

Argus is in public beta. Send us bugs, confusing moments and feature requests.