Deskbar — Development skill for Claude Code

Deskbar

[](media/deskbar-launch-16x9-v1-web.mp4)

The tour above is an animation made with demo data. Click it for the version with sound, or see the [vertical cut](media/deskbar-launch-9x16-v1-web.mp4).

A desk for the Claude Code prompt. One row of small widgets sits above the prompt box, and each one opens a dropdown:

Widget	What it shows	What you can do
Weather	How full the context window is, as a weather icon and a percentage	/weather prints the token counts and their history
Mail	Your Gmail Primary tab, the latest few, unread ones marked	Click a subject to open that thread in Gmail
Calendar	How many meetings are left this week, and the next one as it gets close	A Join link, and a field to add an event by typing "call with Sam tomorrow 6pm for 45m"
Tasks	The task lists Claude keeps in each session, to do and done side by side, with a progress bar	Search and switch between the sessions of any project
Notes	One notes list shared by every session	Type or dictate a note; "in 30m", "at 5pm" or "tomorrow" sets a reminder; turn a note into a calendar event, or hand it to Claude
Music	A retro deck: track, artist, cover, progress and a live spectrum of your speaker output	Back, play or pause, stop, next, volume, for anything Windows sees as media (YouTube Music in a browser, Spotify)
Timer	A billable-hours clock for the project	Start and stop; today and the week against a weekly cap; Claude starts and stops it by the rules in rules.md
Settings		Which widgets show, how often mail is checked, the music bars and sounds

The widgets read their data directly. No model call is made unless you press the one button that asks for it (handing a note to Claude).

Requirements

• Claude Code 2.1.286 or later, in the desktop app (Code tab) or a terminal. 2.1.287 or later is better: it draws the smooth animations in the desktop a