Open-source Mac app 'Heard' narrates your coding agent's status out loud

A developer found that while using Claude Code for daily coding, the real bottleneck wasn't the AI agent but themselves: they'd start a task, step away, and forget to check back for ten or fifteen minutes while the agent sat finished or stuck on a failing test waiting for input. To fix this, they built and open-sourced Heard, a Mac-only app that reads a coding agent's status out loud as it works, so you can hear something like "tests passed" or "waiting on your input" from another room instead of watching a terminal. Beyond just agent status, it also offers personal-assistant-style ambient narration.

The developer already dictates into Claude Code using Wispr Flow, and frames Heard as the output half of that loop, aiming to make the whole coding workflow hands-free. Current limits: it cannot be talked back to or used to steer the agent yet, it only listens and narrates, it's Mac-only, and being new, it may still mishandle some edge cases when parsing agent output.