claude-usage-swiftbar: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

claude-usage-swiftbar CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from joewongjc/claude-usage-swiftbar. It costs 163 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Installation instructions for a macOS SwiftBar plugin that displays Claude Code usage in the menu bar. SwiftBar is a macOS utility that turns executable scripts into menu-bar items.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use them to install the plugin, check Claude Code login credentials, and place the usage script in SwiftBar's plugin folder.
Why use it?
They explain the required software, authentication, project files, and installation process so the plugin can be deployed without manual setup guesswork.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

This is joewongjc/claude-usage-swiftbar's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on claude-usage-swiftbar itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything claude-usage-swiftbar configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to joewongjc/claude-usage-swiftbar. 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/joewongjc/claude-usage-swiftbar/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joewongjc/claude-usage-swiftbar

Made for: Claude Code.

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Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

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Opus 5 $0.00081 $0.00081
Sonnet 5 $0.00033 $0.00033
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00016

Measured 9d ago against content hash a7ef06c8ecd1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-usage-swiftbar 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 9d 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 · 23 lines

What it actually says

Claude Usage SwiftBar Plugin

Deployment

Run ./install.sh to install. The script will:

  1. Check that this is macOS
  2. Install SwiftBar via Homebrew if not present
  3. Verify Claude Code OAuth credentials exist in Keychain
  4. Copy the plugin to ~/Library/SwiftBar/
  5. Set executable permissions

Prerequisites

  • macOS
  • Claude Code, logged in via claude login (OAuth authentication)
  • Homebrew (will be used to install SwiftBar if needed)

Project Structure

  • claude-usage.5m.py - The SwiftBar plugin script (refreshes every 5 minutes)
  • install.sh - Automated installer
  • README.md - User-facing documentation
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.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 23 lines · 163 tokens per session scan A a7ef06c8ecd1

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claude-usage-swiftbar CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository joewongjc/claude-usage-swiftbar (3 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 163 tokens to every session, about $0.0008 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-31.

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