Kilobat: All-in-one Mac networking for AI agents and humans too

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I build Kilobat, a Mac menu-bar app that bundles per-app and agent network usage, connection diagnostics, hotspot controls and traffic-aware keep-awake. It keeps your Mac awake during transfers and notifies you when an agent’s traffic goes quiet.

The free open-source CLI includes a local MCP server, so Kilo can check your connection before a big download or investigate a failed request.

brew install seifip/kilobat/kilobat

In Kilo’s MCP settings, add a Local (stdio) server with command kilobat and argument mcp.

https://kilobat.app

Source: https://github.com/seifip/kilobat-cli

The CLI/MCP server is GPL-3.0-only; the separate desktop app is proprietary. The CLI needs macOS 14 or later, and Homebrew builds it from source with Xcode 16 or later. Wi-Fi network names need the desktop app with Location permission; filter status and per-network budgets also come from the app.

What network problems keep interrupting your agent runs?