What is add-macos-statusbar?

A macOS menu-bar indicator for NanoClaw, showing whether the service is running with a green or red status dot. It also provides controls to start, stop, or restart it.

Use it on macOS to install a native status-bar app that monitors NanoClaw and controls its service. It requires Apple's Xcode Command Line Tools.

It gives a quick visual check of NanoClaw's status without opening a terminal. The controls make common service actions available from the macOS menu bar.

How chiptoe-svg/nanoclaw_flexagents configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to chiptoe-svg/nanoclaw_flexagents. 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/chiptoe-svg/nanoclaw_flexagents/main/.claude/skills/add-macos-statusbar/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/chiptoe-svg/nanoclaw_flexagents

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 876 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

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

Origin 97% copy Near-identical to another mod 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	$0.00049	$0.00876
Opus 5	$0.00024	$0.00438
Sonnet 5	$0.00010	$0.00175
Haiku 4.5	$0.00005	$0.00088

Measured 11d ago against content hash 57f12e7da820, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

add-macos-statusbar 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 11d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

97% identical to add-macos-statusbar — 8 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.claude/skills/add-macos-statusbar/SKILL.md · 134 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 134 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Adds a persistent menu bar icon that shows NanoClaw's running status and lets the user start, stop, or restart the service — similar to how Docker Desktop appears in the menu bar.

macOS only. Requires Xcode Command Line Tools (swiftc).

Phase 1: Pre-flight

Check platform

If not on macOS, stop and tell the user:

This skill is macOS only. The menu bar status indicator uses AppKit and requires swiftc (Xcode Command Line Tools).

Check for swiftc

which swiftc

If not found, tell the user:

Xcode Command Line Tools are required. Install them by running:
xcode-select --install
Then re-run /add-macos-statusbar.

Check if already installed

launchctl list | grep com.nanoclaw.statusbar

If it returns a PID (not -), tell the user it's already installed and skip to Phase 3 (Verify).

Phase 2: Compile and Install

Compile the Swift binary

The source lives in the skill directory. Compile it into dist/:

mkdir -p dist
swiftc -O -o dist/statusbar "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/add/src/statusbar.swift"

This produces a small native binary at dist/statusbar.

On macOS Sequoia or later, clear the quarantine attribute so the binary can run:

xattr -cr dist/statusbar

Create the launchd plist

Determine the absolute project root and home directory:

pwd
echo $HOME

Create ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.nanoclaw.statusbar.plist, substituting the actual values for {PROJECT_ROOT} and {HOME}:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>Label</key>
    <string>com.nanoclaw.statusbar</string>
    <key>ProgramArguments</key>
    <array>
        <string>{PROJECT_ROOT}/dist/statusbar</string>
    </array>
    <key>RunAtLoad</key>
    <true/>
    <key>KeepAlive</key>
    <true/>
    <key>EnvironmentVariables</key>
    <dict>
        <key>HOME</key>
        <string>{HOME}</string>
    </dict>
    <key>StandardOutPath</key>
    <string>{PROJECT_ROOT}/logs/statusbar.log</string>
    <key>StandardErrorPath</key>
    <string>{PROJECT_ROOT}/logs/statusbar.error.log</string>
</dict>
</plist>

Read the full file on GitHub · 134 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

add/src/statusbar.swift 5.1 KB

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.

11d ago First seen · 134 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 57f12e7da820

Subscribe to this mod's changes

add-macos-statusbar is a skill published in the GitHub repository chiptoe-svg/nanoclaw_flexagents (5 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 876 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to add-macos-statusbar, differing in 8 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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