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Show HN: macOS menu bar gauges for your Claude Code quota

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Menu bar gauges for your Claude Code quota — one bar per account, like this:

(drawn for dark menu bars — white outlines)

Each bar shows the 5-hour-window utilization for one account, colored green / orange (≥70%) / red (≥90%).

for one account, colored green / orange (≥70%) / red (≥90%). When the 5-hour window is fully used, the bar shows a countdown until reset ( 4:28 ) instead of the percentage.

( ) instead of the percentage. When the weekly limit is hit, the bar turns black with a countdown to the weekly reset ( 2D ) — that's the harder cap, whatever the 5-hour window says.

is hit, the bar turns with a countdown to the weekly reset ( ) — that's the harder cap, whatever the 5-hour window says. The dropdown lists full detail for every account inline: 5-hour and weekly windows, per-model windows where your plan reports them, extra-usage credits, and reset times.

Refreshes every 5 minutes (SwiftBar filename convention) plus a manual "Refresh now" entry.

Quick install

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grzegorz-raczek-unit8/claude-quota/main/install.sh | bash

Requires macOS and Homebrew. When macOS shows a Keychain permission dialog on the first refresh, click Always Allow.

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