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Claude Status Bar A tiny macOS menu bar app that shows Claude Code's live status: an animated Claude icon while it's thinking or running a tool, a yellow dot when it's awaiting your permission, and the elapsed time of the current turn. Lightweight, no window, no dock icon, no usage dashboards. Built so you can tab away during a long "thinking" stretch and still see, at a glance, whether Claude is working, waiting on you, or done. [!IMPORTANT] Multi-session support. When several Claude Code sessions run at once (multiple terminals, or a terminal plus the desktop app), the menu bar surfaces the highest-priority one: a session awaiting your permission is never hidden behind one that's thinking. The dropdown lists every live session. Click a session to jump to it: desktop sessions focus the Claude app, terminal sessions bring their terminal app to the front. Precise per-tab focus is in progress: [issue #19 →
| Stars | 655 |
| Forks | 57 |
| Language | Swift |
| Category | Claude Skill |
| License | MIT |
| Quality Score | 68.005907116071/100 |
| Last Updated | 2026-08-08 |
| Created | 2026-06-21 |
| Platforms | claude-code, cli |
| Est. Tokens | ~16k |
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claude-status-bar is Menu bar status indicator for Claude Code. It is categorized as a Claude Skill with 655 GitHub stars.
claude-status-bar is primarily written in Swift. It covers topics such as anthropic, app, claude.
You can find installation instructions and usage details in the claude-status-bar GitHub repository at github.com/m1ckc3s/claude-status-bar. The project has 655 stars and 57 forks, indicating an active community.
claude-status-bar is released under the MIT license, making it free to use and modify according to the license terms.
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