claude-status-bar

Menu bar status indicator for Claude Code: animated spark, elapsed timer, and open/close lifecycle.

CLEARED_STATICagent-agnosticv0.4.4

Pipeline results

Coverage

CLEARED_STATIC

Tests run

7 / 8

Portability

Agent-agnostic (works beyond Claude)

Type

Plugins

Tests & results

What the pipeline checked

TestStateResult or reason

eligibilityranall eligibility checks passed

dedupranunique -- no near-duplicate found

clocran2444 code lines / 26 files

secretsranno secret patterns matched

egressran6 lexical match(es) — FLAG-INFO (C-01: semantic analysis deferred to v2)

injectionranno patterns matched (confidence: STANDARD)

required-fieldsranrequired fields present: name, version, description

behaviouraldeferredbehavioural assessment deferred (v1): 4 JS/TS entry point(s)

Coverage

Not assessed

behavioural execution not run
egress patterns logged (FLAG-INFO): 6 lexical match(es)

README

From the repository


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.



## Install

### Homebrew (recommended)

```bash
brew install --cask claude-status-bar && open -a "Claude Status Bar"
```

The one launch at the end matters: it wires up the Claude Code hooks automatically. After that it starts itself whenever Claude Code runs.

**Already using the app from the DMG?** The same command switches you to Homebrew. Your settings and hooks carry over, and the old copy cleans itself up on first launch. Full details, edge cases, and the tested upgrade matrix: **[HOMEBREW.md](HOMEBREW.md)**.

> [!IMPORTANT]
> **Updated (or installed) mid-session?** Sessions already open appear the next time they do something (a prompt or a tool call). Starting a new `claude` session also works.

### DMG

*Signed and notarized by Apple*

1. Download the late…

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