offstage
An open-source Mac tool that isolates AI coding agent activity by creating a dedicated macOS user account for the agent. It leverages the operating system's native multi-user mechanism to enable parallel human–agent operation, preventing the AI agent from occupying the user's current screen and input devices.
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offstage provides AI assistants such as Claude Code, Codex, and opencode with a separate, already-logged-in second macOS account, allowing the agent to work within that account.
offstage's slogan is "Your computer-use agent gets a Mac account, not your screen."
offstage leverages macOS's multi-user and fast user switching mechanisms to isolate AI agent operations.
Compared to virtual machines, solutions based on the native multi-user mechanism have all accounts sharing the same hardware resources and OS kernel, switching with almost no latency, and without needing to allocate large amounts of memory separately for the second environment.
offstage is built by developer Viraat Das, completely free and open-source, with code hosted on GitHub (github.com/viraatdas/offstage).
offstage is categorized on Product Hunt under Mac, Open Source, Developer Tools, and GitHub, ranking 16th on the daily chart with 72 upvotes.
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offstage provides AI assistants such as Claude Code, Codex, and opencode with a separate, already-logged-in second macOS account, allowing the agent to work within that account.
50%Unverifiedoffstage's slogan is "Your computer-use agent gets a Mac account, not your screen."
50%Unverifiedoffstage leverages macOS's multi-user and fast user switching mechanisms to isolate AI agent operations.
50%UnverifiedCompared to virtual machines, solutions based on the native multi-user mechanism have all accounts sharing the same hardware resources and OS kernel, switching with almost no latency, and without needing to allocate large amounts of memory separately for the second environment.
50%Unverifiedoffstage is built by developer Viraat Das, completely free and open-source, with code hosted on GitHub (github.com/viraatdas/offstage).
50%Unverifiedoffstage is categorized on Product Hunt under Mac, Open Source, Developer Tools, and GitHub, ranking 16th on the daily chart with 72 upvotes.
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