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claude-status-bar

Claude Status Bar is a small macOS menu bar app that shows Claude Code's live status.

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Checked 2026-10-31

Claude Status Bar is a small macOS menu bar app that shows Claude Code's live status. It shows an animated icon while Claude thinks or runs a tool, a yellow dot when it waits for your permission, and a short label such as Editing, Reading or Running command. The README says that when several sessions run at once, the menu bar surfaces the highest-priority one. The first launch wires the Claude Code hooks automatically, and a bundled uninstall script removes only its own hooks. Install is brew install --cask claude-status-bar && open -a "Claude Status Bar". It needs macOS 12 or newer, Claude Code (CLI or desktop app) and Node.js. The licence is MIT, and the last commit was on 20 October 2026. It suits anyone who tabs away during long runs. The limit is platform: it is macOS only, and sessions already open at install time appear only after their next action. We have not run it ourselves for this note.

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How do I install claude-status-bar?

Run this command: brew install --cask claude-status-bar && open -a "Claude Status Bar". The install box on this page has the command for each agent it works with.

Is claude-status-bar free?

It is published under the MIT licence.

Who maintains claude-status-bar?

It is maintained by mick. The code is at github.com/m1ckc3s/claude-status-bar.

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