Neo Agent Deck

A private, glanceable agent console for the Elgato Stream Deck Neo.
See Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode status and usage directly on your desk.

Neo Agent Deck turns the Neo's eight LCD keys, 248×58 InfoBar, and two touch points into one dashboard. It runs locally over USB, reconnects automatically, and safely waits when the device is unplugged.

Install in three steps

Requirements: Git, Node.js 22.13+ on Node 22 or Node.js 24+, and macOS, Windows 10+, or Linux with a systemd user session. Node 23 is unsupported. The Neo can stay unplugged during setup.

1. Clone the repository.

   git clone https://github.com/m-a-b-u/neo-agent-deck.git

2. Enter the project.

   cd neo-agent-deck

3. Start the guided installer.

   macOS / Linux:

   ./install.sh

   Windows PowerShell:

   .\install.cmd

The terminal UI shows the recommended 4×2 layout first. Press Enter to accept it, or choose y to customize every key, InfoBar page, resting page, and brightness. The installer then builds a private per-user copy and enables automatic startup.

macOS and Windows need no administrator password. Linux asks for sudo only if HID runtime packages or its Stream Deck USB permission rule are missing; the application and service still run as your user.

Sign in to at least one supported agent locally. Providers that are not installed or signed in remain safely unavailable without blocking the others.

The default dashboard

┌────────────┬────────────┬────────────┬────────────┐
│ Claude     │ Codex      │ OpenCode   │ All Agents │
│ status     │ status     │ status     │ summary    │
├────────────┼────────────┼────────────┼────────────┤
│ Claude     │ Codex      │ OpenCode   │     ⓘ      │
│ usage      │ usage      │ usage      │ InfoBar    │
└────────────┴────────────┴────────────┴────────────┘
        ◀ touch       248×58 InfoBar       touch ▶

State	Meaning	Signal
WORKING	At least one session is processing	Green
IDLE	No active or unacknowledged session	Gray
NEED YOU	A turn completed, stopped, errored, or needs input	Amber

Tap an amber provider key to acknowledge completed sessions. Tap All Agents for the combined view. The info key and right touch point move forward through the InfoBar pages; the left touch point moves backward.

The four pages show Claude's 5-hour and 7-day plan usage, Codex rate-limit windows, OpenCode local token totals, and combined session counts. If a refresh fails, retained values are marked stale instead of appearing live.

Data sources and privacy

Provider	Status and usage source	Network used by Neo Agent Deck
Claude Code	Local session files; existing OAuth sign-in from macOS Keychain, the Claude credentials file, or CLAUDE_CODE_OAUTH_TOKEN	Anthropic usage request only
Codex	Lifecycle and rate-limit events in local Codex session files	None
OpenCode	Latest message plus aggregate token/cost fields in the local SQLite database	None

Neo Agent Deck has no telemetry, hosted backend, or account system. It does not persist OAuth tokens or session content. Only lifecycle, timestamps, usage, and aggregate values affect the display. OpenCode uses Node's built-in read-only SQLite support; no separate sqlite3 program is required.

Default data locations are home-relative on every platform:

Provider	Default	Override
Claude Code	~/.claude	CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR
Codex	~/.codex	CODEX_HOME
OpenCode	~/.local/share/opencode	OPENCODE_DATA_HOME

For the simplest Windows experience, run the agents natively on Windows. If their data lives in WSL, point the overrides at the corresponding \\wsl.localhost\DISTRO\... directories before installing the login service. See the setup guide for an example.

Configuration

The guided installer opens this setup automatically. To change keys, InfoBar rotation, resting page, or brightness later, run:

npm run setup

Configuration and acknowledgement state live in ~/.neo-agent-deck. See the setup guide for every module and example layouts.

Useful non-interactive commands:

npm run setup -- --print    # show effective configuration
npm run setup -- --default  # restore the default layout
npm run status              # sanitized live backend summary; no Neo needed
npm run doctor              # platform, device, sign-in, files, DB, backends
npm run preview:live        # render live data and print the image path

How it works

flowchart LR
  C["Claude Code files + sign-in"] --> D["Local collectors"]
  X["Codex session events"] --> D
  O["OpenCode SQLite"] --> D
  D --> S["Normalized session + usage state"]
  S --> R["96×96 keys + 248×58 InfoBar"]
  R --> N["Stream Deck Neo over USB"]

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The app polls local agent state every three seconds. Claude plan usage is cached for five minutes unless you tap a usage key. Device disconnects, malformed session lines, missing backends, and temporary collector failures are isolated so the service keeps running and reconnects.

Direct USB access is intentional: Neo Agent Deck uses the Neo HID implementation from the MIT-licensed @elgato-stream-deck/node library.

Troubleshooting

• Elgato's normal profile is visible: fully quit Elgato Stream Deck, then restart Neo Agent Deck.
• A backend is unavailable: run npm run doctor, then npm run status for the sanitized error.
• The Neo is unplugged: the service waits and reconnects automatically.
• macOS restart: launchctl kickstart -k gui/$UID/com.neo-agent-deck.
• Windows restart: run npm run install:win again; it replaces and restarts the per-user service.
• Linux restart: systemctl --user restart neo-agent-deck.service.
• macOS logs: ~/Library/Logs/NeoAgentDeck.log and NeoAgentDeck.error.log.
• Windows logs: ~/.neo-agent-deck/logs/NeoAgentDeck.log and NeoAgentDeck.error.log.
• Linux logs: journalctl --user -u neo-agent-deck.service -f.
• Linux USB permission denied: re-run npm run install:linux, then unplug and reconnect the Neo once.

To uninstall and return control to Elgato:

# macOS
npm run uninstall:mac
open -a "Elgato Stream Deck"

# Windows
npm run uninstall:win
Start-Process "$env:ProgramFiles\Elgato\StreamDeck\StreamDeck.exe"

# Linux
npm run uninstall:linux

Preferences and logs are kept so reinstalling does not discard your layout.

Development

npm ci
npm run doctor        # sanitized device and backend checks
npm run preview:live  # render current backend data without a Neo
npm run dev           # run in the foreground
npm run check          # build, test typecheck, and unit/integration tests
npm run preview:docs   # regenerate all README product images

On macOS or Windows, close Elgato Stream Deck before npm run dev; only one process can own the USB interface. CI checks macOS, Windows, and Linux with Node.js 22 and 24. Tagged releases are published only after the same cross-platform matrix and service-installer smoke tests pass.

License

MIT © Manuel Burgschachner. Stream Deck is a trademark of Elgato/Corsair. Claude, Codex, and OpenCode belong to their respective owners. This independent project is not endorsed by Elgato, Anthropic, OpenAI, or the OpenCode maintainers.