Hive Light

A native macOS menu-bar traffic light for your Claude Code sessions — see what needs you, at a glance.

hive light

**/ˈhaɪv ˌlaɪt/** — *noun*

**1.** the single glow by which a colony of many independent workers can be read as one organism; the state of the whole, never of any one bee.

**2.** the glance a beekeeper gives the hive — the work is left to happen on its own, and the keeper steps in only when something truly needs them.

**3.** *(software, macOS)* a menu-bar light that distills every Claude Code session on your Mac — projects as cells, sessions within them, subagents fanning out like foragers — into one traffic light: **red** when a session needs you, **orange** while the hive hums, **green** when all is quiet.

*A hive is never managed one bee at a time.*

Overview

Hive Light watches every Claude Code session on your Mac and distills them into a single traffic light in the menu bar. One glance tells you whether an agent is waiting on you, still working, or done — no alt-tabbing through terminals to find out.

At a Glance