Early release · coordinate work across your Macs
Put your Macs to work together.
MacItWork is building a way to coordinate your Macs and coding agents as workers. Today you can delegate a supported build or test to a paired Mac, approve it and get a signed receipt. Agent handoffs and more kinds of work are planned.
How it works
Your Macs can do more together. MacItWork coordinates supported jobs across paired machines, with approval and a record of the result. Builds and tests are the first jobs; the goal is to support more work and agent handoffs over time.
- 1
Ask
Type or say what you want, in everyday words.
- 2
Understand
Apple Intelligence on your Mac turns it into one job from MacItWork’s list. It can’t make up new commands.
- 3
Choose & approve
MacItWork picks the Mac that is cool, charged and free, tells you why, and waits for your Touch ID.
- 4
Run
That Mac checks the approval came from you, then runs only that job, such as your app’s tests.
- 5
Receipt
A PDF of what ran and whether it passed. If anyone edits it, it shows. No passwords inside.
Your Mac
Understands the request, picks a Mac, asks for your OK.
Your other Mac
Builds or tests your app and reports Passed or Failed.
Three screens design previews
The menu bar is where you ask and approve. The receipt shows what ran. The iPhone app, in testing, lets you approve from your phone.
Build only · on Mac B · expires in 10 min
- AskedMac A asked Mac B to build
- Approvedby you, with Touch ID
- CheckedMac B confirmed the approval came from you
- RanPassed · 4 min 28 s
- Savedon both Macs
Build Rifflet on Mac B?
Mac A wants Mac B to build Rifflet once. Nothing else.
What it will never do
- Run a command it made up, or one typed by an AI assistant or your iPhone.
- Treat a connection, a pairing, a voice command or an AI’s suggestion as your yes.
- Copy passwords, Keychain items, cookies or private chats into your projects or receipts.
- Merge, publish or delete anything on its own.
- Let two Macs change the same project at the same time.
- Give anyone full control of your other Mac, AI assistants included.
Where it stands 3 November 2026
Working today
- A menu bar app for Apple silicon and Intel Macs on macOS 26 or later, checked by Apple.
- Ask “how is Mac B doing?” by typing or speaking, and hear how hot, busy and full it is.
- Build and test a Swift app on your other Mac and see Passed or Failed.
- Picks the Mac that is cool, charged, idle and has room, and says why it skipped the others.
- Understands everyday words, with or without Apple Intelligence.
- Approve every job with Touch ID or your password, from the menu bar or a notification.
- Every job ends in a PDF receipt you can share. If anyone edits it, it shows.
- Pair two Macs anywhere with a short code. Both screens show the same number, so you know it’s the right Mac. No VPN or router setup.
- AI coding assistants like Claude Code and Codex can ask for a build or test. You approve, and they get the receipt.
In progress and limits
- Coordinating coding-agent sessions and handing them between Macs are planned, not available in this release.
- More kinds of delegated work are planned; today the supported jobs are builds, tests and read-only checks.
- The Mac that runs jobs needs Remote Login turned on, the free tmux tool installed, and MacItWork open.
- The three screens above are design previews. Today’s receipt is a PDF.
- The iPhone app works in testing but isn’t in the App Store.
- Connecting an AI assistant needs a developer setup for now.
- “Hey Siri” doesn’t work yet. Use Dictation instead.