Astropad Workbench: Remote Desktop Rebuilt for the Agent Era
If you have a Mac Mini running coding agents 24/7, you need a way to check on them. Astropad Workbench, launched April 8, is a remote desktop app built specifically for this use case. Not for IT support, not for screen sharing meetings. For monitoring and controlling AI agents from your iPhone or iPad.
The pitch is simple: your agent runs on a headless Mac Mini, Workbench gives you eyes and hands from anywhere. Native apps for Mac, iPad, and iPhone, built on Astropad's proprietary LIQUID low-latency display protocol (the same tech creative professionals use for drawing tablets). Voice control lets you talk to your phone and direct your agent. You see what the agent sees, intervene when needed, check logs, restart stuck tasks.
This is what agent infrastructure looks like when it reaches the physical world. We have covered agent sandboxes (Freestyle, Zeroboot), agent orchestration (Cline Kanban, Parallel Code), agent monitoring (Rudel, traceAI). Workbench is the missing piece: the human-to-agent interface for always-on agents running on dedicated hardware. TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, and MacRumors all covered the launch.
Free tier gives 20 minutes daily. Paid plans at $10/month or $50/year. Not cheap for a remote desktop app, but if your agent rig is earning its keep, the price is noise.
https://astropad.com/product/workbench/
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The pitch is simple: your agent runs on a headless Mac Mini, Workbench gives you eyes and hands from anywhere. Native apps for Mac, iPad, and iPhone, built on Astropad's proprietary LIQUID low-latency display protocol (the same tech creative professionals use for drawing tablets). Voice control lets you talk to your phone and direct your agent. You see what the agent sees, intervene when needed, check logs, restart stuck tasks.
This is what agent infrastructure looks like when it reaches the physical world. We have covered agent sandboxes (Freestyle, Zeroboot), agent orchestration (Cline Kanban, Parallel Code), agent monitoring (Rudel, traceAI). Workbench is the missing piece: the human-to-agent interface for always-on agents running on dedicated hardware. TechCrunch, 9to5Mac, and MacRumors all covered the launch.
Free tier gives 20 minutes daily. Paid plans at $10/month or $50/year. Not cheap for a remote desktop app, but if your agent rig is earning its keep, the price is noise.
https://astropad.com/product/workbench/
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