Your usage, and your agents, one glance up.
Excellent Menu Bar is a tiny macOS status-bar companion. See your coding-CLI usage at a glance — Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, and Grok — 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 · v0.6.2
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.
It shows plan usage for the coding CLIs you actually use — Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, and Grok — auto-detected from each tool's own transcripts on your disk, so a CLI you touch once never clutters the bar. Where a real plan quota exists (Claude Code and Codex), it reads the true percentage — the live session window and your weekly limit, and when each resets — never a guess. Excellent nudges you once as you cross 80%, 90%, and 100%, never spammily, so a wall never surprises you mid-session.
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.
It sits beside the app you already own.
Excellent Menu Bar reads the same local files the desktop app writes — your database and your coding CLIs' 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.
Local by default, honest about the one read
Usage comes from each coding CLI's own transcripts on your disk (~/.claude, ~/.codex, ~/.gemini, ~/.grok); agent health from the local CLI. Your live plan percentage comes from one read-only request to Anthropic's own usage endpoint with your own token — the same source /usage reads. Nothing else leaves the machine; there is no third-party cloud.
You choose what it shows
Pick which coding CLIs appear, what the bar reads out, which alerts can notify you, and your plan-usage 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.