0.1.0
New
- The notch, on by default. Bud and your running agents sit left of the notch, memory and CPU heat to the right, never behind it, on every MacBook. Hover shows your agents (and any that may be forgotten), memory pressure, and CPU and GPU heat with the fan setting. Click for your biggest agent runs, top dev tasks, live fan speed and quick fan presets (Pro). Settings turns it off.
- Memory by dev task. Memory per project for each AI agent and what it started, plus editors, Xcode, the Simulator and dev servers. The breakdown is Pro. Memory in use is free.
- Agent runs. Sessions flags runs you may have forgotten: going for over a day, with memory that hasn't moved. Quit a run from Sessions after a confirmation that shows its folder, memory and age. Each run shows its git branch, and if you turn it on in Settings, the first line of its prompt. Each running agent shows the app it runs in, with a button that brings it forward (in Sessions and the open notch), or No window when its window was closed. Silicon Bud can notify you when a long Claude Code or Codex run finishes (Pro). The menu bar panel shows how many agents are running. In the panel and the open notch, the forgotten-runs line opens Sessions.
- Fan control (Pro). Live fan speeds and every CPU and GPU sensor. Pick Auto, Agent run, Quiet, Boost or Max, or make your own preset. Each fan runs at a fixed speed or on a curve that follows the hottest sensor, and never slower than macOS would run it. Works on battery.
- Heat and staying awake. CPU and GPU temperatures. Keep the Mac awake for 1 hour, 4 hours, until you stop it, or while your agents run. Lid-closed mode keeps it running with the lid shut while plugged in (Pro).
- The whole disk, as rings. How full the disk is, what grew since the last survey, and a ring chart you can click into folder by folder. Click a ring to open it and ⌘↑ to go back. With VoiceOver, each slice reads its name and size and can be opened or added to the delete list. Press Delete on a folder (or hover one and press ⌘⌫) and it moves to a delete list at the bottom of the window. Move the list to the Trash, or delete it for good: the confirmation lists each folder, you press and hold (or hold Space), and you still have 5 seconds to stop. macOS files can't be picked.
- What grew since the last scan. Each scan of your dev folders is compared with the last one and explains what grew: Xcode build data, node_modules, the npm cache.
- Reviewed moves to the Trash, with undo. Nothing moves until you review it, and a journal can put it back. You get the space back only when you empty the Trash yourself.
- What's new. After an update, Silicon Bud shows what changed, once. The Help menu has it anytime, and this changelog has an RSS feed.
- Scheduled scans that notify you of what grew (Pro).
- The keyboard. ⌘1 to ⌘8 switch screens. On the Disk screen, the folder list does everything the ring chart does.
- Icons-only sidebar. The sidebar button switches the sidebar to icons only and back. Hover an icon to see its name.
First built on 7 November as CacheTrail, a cache cleaner. Renamed Silicon Bud on 8 November once it watched the whole dev Mac.