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Inspect or control the computers bb runs on.

BallastKnow which thread is eating your RAM before the machine starts paging. Reads vm_stat page classes rather than the free percentage macOS reports, which counts inactive pages as free and stays reassuring while the box holds gigabytes of swap — pressure is graded on headroom, paging rate, compression and the kernel's own verdict, and the banner names the signal that decided. Consumers roll up by process tree and by BB thread, matched through worktree paths, so a 2.4GB row names a thread you can steer instead of six identical node processes. A guard can throttle BB concurrency, ask the hungriest threads to release memory, stop orphaned processes, or hand the problem to an agent — every one of those is off until you turn it on. Nothing is stopped unless nothing can still be waiting on it, and the apply step takes only ids the plan minted, re-checked against the live process table. macOS and Linux, no account or external service.UtilitiesBraedon Saunders35
Browser CopyCopies what you point at in a BB Browser tab: pick any element and get a structured markdown block — page URL, viewport, CSS selector, ARIA role and name, bounds, link, and text — or a PNG of just that element, or a screenshot of the visible tab. One icon button in the thread header opens the three modes, and the picker outlines each target with a hover highlight and label as you move. Redaction is a heuristic on form fields — a password input, or a name, id or autocomplete matching password, credential, secret, token, api-key or auth — so it covers more than passwords but nothing outside an input, and images are not redacted.UtilitiesGantisStorm19
Browser Session ImportSigns every ordinary BB Browser tab into one imported cookie session. Import once from a local Chrome, Firefox, or other browser profile, or from a JSON cookie export, and the shared session carries those logins to existing and new tabs. Re-import any time to replace the session, and remove it with one button to clear the Browser. Cookies are read on this machine only; native profiles read on macOS and Linux, while JSON exports work anywhere the BB desktop runs.UtilitiesGantisStorm21
HotspotNames the BB thread that is making your Mac hot, and lets you stop the dev server or build behind it. A flame in the sidebar footer shows CPU and memory every 2 seconds; click it for the busiest threads, each thread's processes, and a kill that lists what it stops and what it spares before it runs. The Hotspot page keeps seven days of per-minute CPU, memory and thermal history, shades each hot spell, and ranks the threads that caused it. Agents answer "why was my Mac hot at 3pm?" with a built-in tool, and the bb hotspot command answers it in a terminal. Built for macOS, with no account or network service; on Linux it tracks CPU, memory and threads but has no thermal reading, and Windows is not supported.UtilitiesRoger SerraNew
Now PlayingPlay, pause, and skip tracks from a small player in the bb sidebar footer. The player shows the current track with album art, a seek bar, shuffle, repeat, and volume, in one of seven styles: Default, Minimal, Cover, Hi-Fi, Terminal, Pocket, and the bb-amp skin. The styles follow your bb theme in light and dark mode, and four of them take an accent color. It controls the music player on the computer that runs the bb server: Spotify or Apple Music on macOS, and any MPRIS player on Linux (needs playerctl) or any app in the media overlay on Windows (no volume control there). By default the player follows the app that is playing, and a setting locks it to Spotify or Apple Music. The bb music command gives terminals and agents the same controls. On macOS, Spotify needs its desktop app, and macOS asks once for permission to control each app. Covers for streamed Apple Music tracks come from Apple's iTunes Search API, which receives the artist and title; a setting turns this off.UtilitiesChris AbraNew
ReclaimFind what filled your disk and get the space back, without guessing. Indexes the whole volume with no scan cap and counts hardlinks and APFS clones once, so shared copies do not inflate folder totals. Browse any folder by real subtree size, or work from a costed list of build output, idle dependencies, package caches, Xcode derived data and Docker layers, including compacting the Docker VM disk image that pruning alone never shrinks. Deletion is confined to roots you authorize, and a guard can clean up or hand the problem to an agent when space runs low. macOS and Linux, no account or external service.UtilitiesBraedon Saunders23
Screen SharingSee and control the screens of your Macs from inside bb, at your desk or from anywhere through your getbb.app address. A sidebar page shows each Mac connected to your bb with whether its Screen Sharing is on, and opens its screen in the page for your keyboard and mouse. Sessions to several Macs can be open at once, with View only, Send keys for shortcuts such as Command-Tab, Full screen, and a Clipboard menu that sends text either way or keeps both clipboards in sync, for the macOS account bb runs as on that Mac. Every new session asks for that Mac's own macOS user name and password, which bb never keeps, and a Close all pill ends every session at once. Requires bb 0.47 or later and macOS, with Screen Sharing turned on by you in System Settings on each Mac; it relies on experimental bb plugin APIs that may change between bb releases.UtilitiesGustavo AmbrozioNew