Turn an old iPad into a dashboard for your coding agents

That old iPad in a drawer makes a perfect ambient status board. Mounted on the wall running Agent Andon, it shows every Claude Code and Codex agent at a glance — green when done, amber when one needs you — so you never alt-tab just to check. There is no app to install; it is a web page.

Run the board

On the machine where your agents run:

andon serve

It prints a board URL. (Haven’t wired your agents yet? Run andon install claude / andon install codex first.)

Open it on the iPad

Open that URL in Safari on the iPad:

• Same Wi-Fi — use the printed LAN URL directly.
• From anywhere — expose the board with Tailscale Serve, or pair a content-blind relay you run (andon hosted setup <relay-url>) and open that URL instead. See Hosted Andon.

Then Share → Add to Home Screen for a full-screen, chrome-free view.

Keep it always-on

Two iOS settings turn a tablet into a wall display:

• Settings → Display & Brightness → Auto-Lock → Never, so the screen stays awake.
• Guided Access (Settings → Accessibility → Guided Access) locks the iPad to the board, so a passing tap can’t wander off it.

Mount it

A cheap stand on the desk, or a wall mount in your eyeline. Now a glance — not a context switch — tells you which agent needs you.

The board floats whichever session needs you to the top and stays quiet otherwise, so the iPad is calm until it isn’t. See Running Andon for the board server, and Notifications if you also want desktop or phone alerts.