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CoderBar — Development skill for Claude Code

Development community

Native macOS agent control for Codex and Claude — monitor, approve, ask, and jump back from the menu bar.

How to install CoderBar

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open helloyulife/CoderBar and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What CoderBar does

Native macOS agent control for Codex and Claude — monitor, approve, ask, and jump back from the menu bar.

Alternatives in Development

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Claude Status — macOS Menu Bar + Desktop Widget for Claude Code Session Monitoring 59 ★

README

CoderBar

Native agent control for macOS.
Monitor Codex and Claude, make decisions, and jump back to work from the top of your screen.

The agent bar for your Mac

CoderBar is a native SwiftUI utility that attaches to the top edge of macOS. It discovers live desktop agent sessions and turns them into a compact control surface: quiet while agents work, detailed when something needs your attention.

CoderBar compact status

CoderBar expanded session dashboard

Four actions, one surface

	Action	What it does
◫	Monitor	See active sessions, model, reasoning effort, usage, tasks, and sub-agents.
✓	Approve	Review permission requests and plans, then approve or reject them.
?	Ask	Answer agent questions and choose options without switching apps.
↗	Jump	Return to the exact Codex, Claude, terminal, or tmux session.

Product capabilities

Real desktop sessions — reads the session indexes owned by Codex App, Claude Code, and Claude Desktop.
Live agent state — distinguishes working, waiting, completed, failed, and input-required st