Open-source AiWatchDog monitors AI coding agent status

On October 3, 2026, a post on DEV Community introduced AiWatchDog, an open-source tool for keeping an eye on AI coding agents. The author describes running many such agents at once, including Kilo, Claude Code, Codex, Aider, and scripts they wrote themselves, and repeatedly running into the same problem: after starting a task and walking away from the terminal, they would come back 20 minutes later with no way to tell whether the agent was making progress, waiting for input, or stuck in an endless retry loop burning through tokens.

AiWatchDog is the author's answer to that gap. According to the post, it is a dashboard-style tool that monitors AI coding agents and shows whether an agent is pushing a task forward, waiting on the user, or wedged in repeated retries. It is released under the MIT license, and the author also points readers to a live demo at https://aiwatchdog.vercel.app/.

The material stops there. It covers the tool's release and the availability of the hosted demo, but says nothing about later updates, user reactions, or additional features.