Show HN: Rexfeed – A tech feed in a Rex side pane while your coding agent works

Category: cli-tool

Tags: terminal, agents, rss, kitty-graphics, macos, claude-code

Score: 5.8/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 6, Documentation: 8, Utility: 3)

Rexfeed is a Rust CLI that hooks into coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Pi) inside the Rex terminal and opens a side pane showing rotating tech news, tips, and videos while the agent works. It's an interesting niche integration using kitty graphics protocol for inline media and agent lifecycle hooks, but it's tightly coupled to a specific macOS-only terminal and requires several external tools.

Target audience: developers using AI coding agents in the Rex terminal on macOS

Repository: https://github.com/alpcanaydin/rexfeed · Rust · MIT

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