Lobbyte

Humans meet while agents work.

Lobbyte is a lightweight macOS TUI for meeting another builder while coding agents work.

Install

Lobbyte supports macOS 12 or newer on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs, with Node.js 22 or newer.

npm install -g lobbyte
lobbyte

Choose Match to meet another person. Choose Connect to configure local status integration for Codex and Claude Code.

Inside a room:

• /next switches to another room;
• /exit returns home;
• /block blocks the current builder and switches rooms.

Privacy

Lobbyte Hooks only turn local coding-agent lifecycle events into a small presence state such as prompting, waiting, done, or idle. Lobbyte does not send Hook payloads, prompts, repositories, file paths, code, or agent output.

Chat messages pass through the official Lobbyte service for live delivery. They are not end-to-end encrypted and are not retained as chat history. Do not share private code, credentials, or personal information.

Develop

The client requires Go 1.25.12 or a newer Go 1.25 patch release. The npm packaging tools require Node.js 22 or newer.

make run
make test
make fuzz
make vuln
make check-npm

Source builds connect to the official service by default. Development-only connection overrides require both clientVersion=dev and an isolated LOBBYTE_DEV_PROFILE, preventing release builds from silently switching to a plaintext endpoint.

The public source tree contains the macOS client, protocol types, tests, and npm packaging tools. Please use GitHub Issues for bugs and feature requests.

Uninstall

Remove Lobbyte-owned Codex and Claude Code Hooks before uninstalling:

lobbyte hooks remove
npm uninstall -g lobbyte

Uninstalling keeps the local Builder identity by default.

License

Copyright 2026 xfey. Licensed under the Apache License 2.0.