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Glim — Development skill for Claude Code

Development community

A glimpse at your agents.

How to install Glim

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

What Glim does

A glimpse at your agents. A desktop island for Claude Code and Codex CLI on macOS and Windows: live activity, context and token usage, kept on your device.

Alternatives in Development

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Cc Bar — Native macOS menu bar app: track quota, usage and cost for Codex (multi-account) and Claude Code, from your me 119 ★

README

Glim

**A glimpse at your agents. Then back to your flow.**

A minimal desktop island for Claude Code and Codex CLI, on macOS and Windows. On a MacBook it wraps the notch. Live activity, context, token usage, and reported task progress stay above your workspace. Your data stays on your device.

[![The Glim website: the island at the top of the screen, the headline, the download button, and a row of 3D Glims](docs/images/website.jpg)](https://glim.jacobbalane.com/)

**[Try it on the website →](https://glim.jacobbalane.com/)** The page runs the real island on sample sessions. Ask for approval, finish a turn or hit an error, and watch it react. Nothing to install.

[Download for macOS or Windows](https://github.com/jacobbalane/Glim/releases/latest) · [Docs](https://glim.jacobbalane.com/docs/) · [Changelog](CHANGELOG.md) · [Compatibility](docs/compatibility.md) · [Development](docs/development.md)

Glim is not code-signed yet. On macOS, the first time you open it, macOS says it cannot check it: click **Done**, then open **System Settings**, **Privacy & Security**, and click **Open Anyway**. On Windows, SmartScreen may warn on first run: choose **More info**, then **Run anyway**.

What it does

A compact island attached to the top of your selected display; on a Mac with a notch, it grows out of the notch, with nothing drawn where the camera is. Its width fits the live status, and long text scrolls into view.
Rotating session previews, with new approvals, questions, completions, errors and usage limits briefly taking priority. They then wait in a list under the island that folds into a strip of colored dots, one per waiting agent.
Click the preview to expand; click its header again or outside the island to collapse. The expanded view keeps your selected session stable.
Hold the preview or header for 350 ms to move the island left or right; it presses in when picked up, glides on when thrown, and centres when let go near the middle. With the preview focused,