Agent Bar lives in your menu bar and gives you a native GUI for Claude Code. Pick a project, talk to it with your voice, watch tool calls stream in real-time, approve or auto-approve actions, and track token costs — all without leaving your desktop.
Agent Bar is a native macOS menu bar companion designed specifically for developers who use Claude Code. It sits unobtrusively in your menu bar, offering a clean graphical user interface to launch, monitor, and interact with Claude Code sessions. The core value of Agent Bar is reducing friction: instead of juggling terminal windows or browser tabs, you keep Claude Code one click away. This tool is purpose-built for daily coding workflows where every second of context switching adds cognitive load. By providing a dedicated native GUI, Agent Bar transforms the way developers manage AI-assisted coding sessions, making the process faster, more focused, and entirely accessible from the menu bar.
Developers using Claude Code often face a common pain point: constant context switching. Starting a session requires opening a terminal, navigating to a project folder, and typing commands. Once the agent is running, you must monitor its output in the terminal, approve tool calls, and respond to prompts — all while trying to stay immersed in your primary code editor. This back-and-forth breaks concentration and slows productivity. Agent Bar directly addresses this problem by keeping the entire Claude Code workflow within a single, always-available menu bar interface. You no longer need to switch windows or remember command-line syntax; the tool's native UI handles session management seamlessly, allowing you to stay focused on your actual coding tasks.
The first major feature group is session launching and project selection. Agent Bar lets you start a Claude Code session from the menu bar by picking any project folder on your Mac. How it works: you click the menu bar icon, a dropdown shows your recent projects or allows you to browse, and with one click a new session begins. This eliminates the need to manually open a terminal, navigate directories, and type `claude` commands. The benefit is immediate: you can spin up a new session in seconds, right from wherever you are working. This feature is especially valuable when you need to quickly ask Claude Code a question or perform a small task without disrupting your editor flow.
The second major feature group is real-time session monitoring and management. Once a session is active, Agent Bar displays its status in the menu bar, showing whether Claude Code is awaiting input or processing a response. You can open a dedicated window to review the full message history, see tool calls as they stream in, and approve or deny each action individually. The interface supports multiple concurrent sessions, each organized in its own view so you can track several AI agents working on different projects simultaneously. This gives you full visibility and control over every action Claude Code takes, without needing to return to the terminal. The benefit is a transparent and efficient approval workflow that keeps you in the driver's seat.
Publisher
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Launch Date2026-02-16
Platformdesktop
Pricingfree