How it works
Glance is deliberately thin. It captures, orchestrates, and gates; the intelligence comes from the Claude Code or Codex CLI already signed in on your Mac.
When you press ⌥Space, the active display is captured and handed — together with your question — to the one provider selected in Settings. Claude Code runs as a persistent session so follow-ups are fast; switching providers cancels in-flight work from the previous selection before new requests begin.
The active display, captured on hotkey. Nothing is recorded continuously.
Builds the request, streams the answer into the overlay, keeps follow-up context.
Claude Code or Codex, using the sign-in it already has. Glance never holds a key.
Autopilot never equals autonomy. A run moves through fixed checkpoints, and the checkpoints that matter are yours — approvals arrive as notifications with one-click approve or reject.
| Checkpoint | Who decides | What it protects |
|---|---|---|
| Plan gate | You | No execution starts until you've read and approved the agent's plan. |
| Review gate | You | Finished work is presented for review; rejection ends the run. |
| Push / PR | You | Separate, explicit clicks — and the agent process is denied git push and gh pr at the CLI permission layer, not just by prompt. |
| Inbox accept | You | Tasks pulled from Jira, Slack, Gmail, or Calendar land as suggestions only; the pull prompt hard-forbids create, update, delete, and send. |
Guarantees you don't have to trust a prompt for — they're structural.
Your checkout is never touched. An approved run hands back a branch, nothing more.
At most two concurrent runs, one per repo, a 10-minute stall timeout, and a 45-minute hard cap.
With Codex selected, Composio settings go only to the specific child process that needs them — never into your global Codex configuration.
Onboarding walks you through each permission and always reflects your current hotkey bindings.
Captures the active display when you press the hotkey. Nothing is recorded continuously.
Plan and review gates arrive with one-click approve and reject actions.
If claude or codex works in your terminal, Glance works on your Mac.