Your usage, and your agents, one glance up.
Excellent Menu Bar is a tiny macOS status-bar companion. See your Claude Code usage and 5-hour block at a glance — and get a nudge the moment an agent needs you. One click deep-links you straight into the app.
macOS 12 Monterey or later · Apple Silicon · signed & notarized · v0.1.0
Two things it keeps an eye on.
No window to manage, nothing to check on a schedule. It lives in the menu bar and speaks up only when there's something worth knowing.
Your coding-CLI usage, at a glance.
The bar shows your live 5-hour block — how much of the window you've spent and when it resets. Excellent nudges you once as you cross 70%, 90%, and 100%, never spammily, so you're never surprised by a wall mid-session. It reads Claude Code's own transcripts on your disk; Codex and Gemini are next.
A nudge the moment your team needs you.
When a task is waiting for you to verify, a run has stalled, or an agent has spent its budget, the menu bar tells you — and clicking the notification deep-links you straight to the exact place in the app. It reads your agents' health from the local excellent-mcp CLI; hygiene chatter stays in the dropdown, not your notifications.
A companion, not a second app
It sits beside the app you already own.
Excellent Menu Bar reads the same local files the desktop app writes — your database and Claude Code's transcripts — so it works whether the app is open or not. No dock icon, no window, exactly one status item: Open Excellent, Settings, Launch at login, Check for Updates. It's the whole app in your peripheral vision.
Local by construction. Yours to silence.
The same posture as the rest of Excellent — nothing phones home, and every reading comes off a file on your own disk.
Reads on your machine only
Usage comes from Claude Code's transcripts in ~/.claude; agent health comes from the local CLI. There is no cloud endpoint — nothing about your work or your usage ever leaves the machine.
You choose what it shows
Pick what the bar reads out, which alerts can notify you, and your plan-limit thresholds. Silence notifications entirely and keep the dropdown — it does exactly what you tell it to.
Signed and notarized
It ships Developer-ID signed and notarized by Apple — the same trust chain as the desktop app — so Gatekeeper opens it clean, with no “damaged app” wall.
Auto-updates, reversible
It updates itself in the background and launches at login if you want. It owns no data of its own, so quitting or removing it changes nothing about your workspace.
Keep an eye on it — from the menu bar.
A tiny companion that keeps your usage and your agents one glance away, and gets out of your way the rest of the time.