What is claude-status CLAUDE.md?

Repository guidance for Claude Status, a native macOS menu bar app that monitors local Claude Code sessions and can focus their terminal or IDE window. It explains the Swift project, build commands, tests, and release setup.

Use it when building, testing, cleaning, installing, or updating the Claude Status macOS app and its related plugin.

It helps an agent use the project's required commands and understand platform and signing constraints when changing the app.

How gmr/claude-status configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to gmr/claude-status. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/gmr/claude-status/main/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/gmr/claude-status

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md

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Per session 2,613 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 2,613 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.02613	$0.02613
Opus 5.5	$0.01045	$0.01045
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00523	$0.00523
Haiku 4.5	$0.00261	$0.00261

Measured 2mo ago against content hash f4e04cd0d2b4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-status CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

CLAUDE.md · 197 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 197 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

Project Overview

Claude Status is a native macOS menu bar app that monitors active Claude Code sessions on the local machine. It shows session state, project info, and provides one-click focus to the session's host app (terminals and IDEs). Distributed outside the Mac App Store via Developer ID signing, notarization, and Sparkle auto-updates.

Build & Test

Xcode project with SPM dependencies (no standalone Package.swift). Use just for all build and test commands:

just build          # Build debug configuration (includes plugin binaries)
just test           # Run all unit tests
just test-class SessionStateTests  # Run a single test class
just clean          # Clean build artifacts
just swap           # Build, copy to /Applications, and relaunch
just sync-plugin    # Sync plugin to installed plugin cache
just show-version   # Show calculated version from git tags

The justfile handles MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=15.0 override (needed for Xcode versions that don't know about macOS 26.2) and disables code signing for local dev builds.

Platform & Language

macOS 26.2+ deployment target (override to 15.0 for CI/older Xcode)
Swift 5.0 with SWIFT_APPROACHABLE_CONCURRENCY = YES, SWIFT_DEFAULT_ACTOR_ISOLATION = MainActor
SwiftUI + AppKit hybrid: AppKit for NSStatusItem/NSPopover/NSWindow, SwiftUI for all views
Menu bar-only: LSUIElement = YES (no Dock icon)
No App Sandbox: required for proc_pidinfo, sysctl KERN_PROCARGS2, and AppleScript automation
Bundle ID: com.poisonpenllc.Claude-Status
Widget Bundle ID: com.poisonpenllc.Claude-Status.widget
App Group: group.com.poisonpenllc.Claude-Status (shared data between app and widget)
URL Scheme: claude-status://

Dependencies (SPM)

Package	Version	Purpose
Sparkle	2.9.0	Auto-updates via Appcast (EdDSA-signed)
CocoaLumberjack	3.9.0	Structured logging
swift-log	1.10.1	Swift logging API

Read the full file on GitHub · 197 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

2mo ago First seen · 197 lines · 2,613 tokens per session scan A f4e04cd0d2b4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

claude-status CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository gmr/claude-status (65 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 2,613 tokens to every session, about $0.0105 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

Mobile

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claude-status: Instructions file for Claude Code