BentoDeck
BentoDeck is the missing output layer between Claude and Apple's ambient glance surfaces.
Core trick
A fast Messages API call drives wrist alerts while a Managed Agents session writes a longer incident runbook behind the notification.
Description
BentoDeck is the missing output layer between Claude and Apple's ambient glance surfaces. Claude already reads your systems through MCP, but its answers are trapped inside a chat window — it can't put a number on your iPhone Home Screen, take over your Dynamic Island, or buzz your wrist when something breaks.
You say "Show me Stripe MRR, today's signups, and critical errors on my Home Screen." Claude calls BentoDeck's MCP tools and Opus 4.7 runs in nine distinct places across the system: it reads each platform's API docs and emits a verified REST endpoint, generates the JMESPath data transform, picks the widget type, designs WCAG-checked themes from prompts like "make it look like Anthropic", runs anomaly detection on a poll loop with a four-layer cost gate (≈$0.15/user/month vs. ≈$150 naive), explains anomalies in plain English on the Lock Screen, and — for the deepest signals — kicks off a Claude Managed Agents session that writes a multi-paragraph incident runbook the user reads when they tap the banner.
Two-tier AI: a fast Messages-API call for the wrist buzz; a long-running Managed Agents session for the deep dive. Native SwiftUI + WidgetKit + Live Activities — no PWA, no Electron. Open-source under MIT.
README excerpt
# BentoDeck **Claude Desktop's output layer for Apple devices.** Tell Claude what you want to see. It's on your iPhone Home Screen in 30 seconds. When something's wrong, Claude tells you in plain English on your Lock Screen. > Built for [Built with Opus 4.7: a Claude Code Hackathon](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/built-with-4-7-hackathon) — April 21–26, 2026. Open source (MIT). [bentodeck.io](https://bentodeck.io) --- ## Vision A world where running a system doesn't mean opening a dashboard. You glance at your wrist, your Lock Screen, your Home Screen — and Claude has already put the numbers that matter in front of you. When something's wrong, Claude tells you in plain English before you think to ask. You don't build dashboards anymore; you have a conversation, and the result lives on the surfaces you already look at every day. ## Mission Make Claude's intelligence **ambient** on Apple devices. BentoDeck is the bridge from Claude Desktop and MCP to the iPhone Home Screen, Lock Screen, Live Activities, and Apple Watch complications — the surfaces Claude itself cannot reach. ## The Problem We Solve Everyone running a live system — indie SaaS founders, bot traders, AI-app builders, marketers, ops engineers — checks their dashboard 10 to 50 times a day. That dashboard is almost always: 1. **Trapped behind a login in a browser tab on a laptop.** Mobile Safari on a cramped Retool page is nobody's happy place. 2. **Splintered across vendors.** Five different mobile apps for