Perch v0.0.2

Perch shows the state of Xcode's built-in Claude agent in the notch of a MacBook Pro.

This release installs by double click. Perch is now signed with a Developer ID and notarised by Apple — no security warning, no right-click trick, no trip through System Settings.

Install

Download Perch-0.0.2.dmg below, open it, and drag Perch into Applications.

Drag it to Applications rather than running it from Downloads: the permission you grant it is tied to where the app lives, and moving it later means granting it again.

Requirements

• macOS 14 or later
• A Mac with a notch — on a notchless display Perch stays silent
• Xcode's built-in Claude agent, which must have run at least once

What's new since v0.0.1

• Signed, notarised and stapled, distributed as a DMG
• The bundle version now comes from the release tag, so the two cannot drift
• Scripts/package.sh performs the whole release run and documents each step

What it does

Idle, there is nothing — the notch goes back to being a notch. The moment the agent works, two hairlines frame it, and hovering unfolds a panel: project, branch, model, context in use, session token totals, conversation title, Xcode run destination, and the last tools called.

Read-only throughout: transcripts are opened read-only and watched with an O_EVTONLY descriptor, only metadata is decoded, nothing is persisted, logged or sent anywhere. The interface speaks 11 languages; perch-cli stays English so its output can be pasted into a public issue.

Translations for languages the author does not read went out without a native reviewer. Corrections are very welcome.