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Introduction
What Hover is: a notch at the top of your screen that opens into a 3D office where your AI coding agents work.
InstallDownload and install Hover on Windows (installer) or Linux (.deb or tarball), and what works on each system, Mac included.Your first taskOpen the office, pick an agent and a folder, and send a task.AgentsHow Hover runs Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Claude Code and Kiro, sign-in checks and idle time.Tool accessThe four access modes (Full, Ask first, Ask always, Read only) and per-tool behaviour.
Hover puts AI agents to work in a notch at the top centre of your screen. At rest it is a slim black island that quietly shows your AI quotas and the agents at work. Hover your pointer over it and it expands into the Agent office: a small 3D office where Codex, Cursor, OpenCode, Claude Code and Kiro each work as a bot at a desk, in the project folder you chose.
- Give tasks to the agent CLIs you already have, up to three at once.
- Or say them out loud: press a shortcut, speak, press it again. See Voice.
- Approve risky steps right in the notch, or let an agent run on its own.
- Watch your quotas for Claude Code, Kiro, Codex and Cursor.
- Keep every session, encrypted, and pick any of them back up with a reply.
- Undo a turn. Hover keeps your folder before and after every answer; see Checkpoints.
- Look over an agent’s shoulder with the desk card: its terminal, files, diff and pull requests.
Hover is a native app written in Rust, for Windows and Linux, with a new Mac app on the same engine (see Hover on macOS). There is no account, no server and no analytics. It is free and open source under the MIT license.