Building TokenMonitor: A Native macOS Menu-Bar App for Watching Claude Code Eat Tokens
How a weekend itch turned into a notarized, cyberpunk-styled menu-bar app — and what I learned about undocumented OAuth endpoints, JSONL transcript spelunking, and the dark corners of NSPanel.
Why
If you use Claude Code a lot, you live with three nagging questions:
1. How close am I to my 5-hour and weekly subscription limits? The CLI shows this if you ask, but I wanted it glanceable, all the time.
2. How full is the context window of each session I have running? With multiple terminals opClaude Code·github.com/TechPreacher/TokenMonitor/releases