A quiet presence in your menu bar, to bring you back to your senses.

Mindful Agent is for people who run AI all day. It waits for the seam between runs and offers one short reset.

it is not open yet. request an invite and it will say one word when it is.

Free, and part of Rewyld.

A new kind of tired

You’re shipping more than ever and the day feels heavier. The loop never pauses now, so neither do you, and the calls you make at hour ten are thinner than the ones from hour two.

Who it is for

Developers running coding agents through the night
Founders supervising a fleet of workflows
Researchers buried in tabs and summaries
Anyone whose job has become watching machines that never pause

What it does

It focuses on your wellbeing. Notices strain. Offers the right reset.

A desktop agent whose success metric is you walking away: it detects the silent shift from directing AI to being dragged by it, and hands the decision back at natural pauses in the work.

Notices strain.

It reads the coarse shape of a session: long stretches without a break, review loops that stopped converging. It only ever sees the shape, never the content.

Offers the right reset.

Usually the five-minute Rewyld practice: outside, phone in your pocket, a calm voice, then back. Sometimes just a slower breath at the window. While the agent runs, the work will still be there.

The setup screen, where you finish one sentence: when I've had a heavy afternoon, I'll walk to the corner and back. — You write one promise. It stays on your machine.

The panel, awake for a moment, handing your own promise back to you after a heavy afternoon. — Rarely, at a natural pause, it says one thing.

The menu-bar presence in its three states: asleep, ready to ask, and stale. — It lives in your menu bar. Quiet and dead look different.

The rules it keeps

It never interrupts flow.
Silence is the default state. A day without a word means it is doing its job.
You set the policy. It never overrides you.

Works with what you already run

Your Claude sessionslive
Your OpenAI sessionslive
Your smartwatch, on Apple Watchcoming soon
Your calendarcoming soon
Your emailcoming soon

It reads only the coarse shape of a session, never the content.

It knows what it is

A machine, bowing to a human, advising less machinery. The role has a long history. Courts kept a fool for exactly this.

Eleven hours at your post. Caesar’s legions marched less, and they at least got to see Gaul. You have conquered a Jira board. A triumph for the ages. Shall the conquering hero rise and locate a window.

Choose how present it isBalanced

you said after a heavy afternoon you would walk to the corner. this is the third one. the light holds.The default. It keeps the promise you wrote, and hands it back to you once.

Very quietBalancedInsistent

You set this once, when you install it. You can move it any time.

a note

I am one of you. I run a software company that helps people practice mindfulness, and yes, I use AI agents to build the thing that tells you to step away from AI agents. I see the irony.

I left big tech to become a nature guide, but I didn’t leave this struggle behind. Five minutes outside still helps me come back to myself. I built this to put those five minutes inside the loop.

Johan, founder of Rewyld

I read the coarse shape of your work, never the content. I stay on your machine.