zero 1.6.13

Fixed

• The menu-bar icon now reliably appears — the real fix. For a version or two the icon was invisible for some people, and stayed invisible no matter how the app was relaunched. The cause turned out to be subtle: macOS remembers, per app, whether your menu-bar icon is shown or hidden, and a first-launch crash in an earlier build left that setting stuck on "hidden" for zero specifically. Once stuck, nothing the app did could bring the icon back. zero now ships under a fresh app identity, which clears that stuck state for everyone — the icon shows on launch as it should. The ⌥⌘Z shortcut to open zero from anywhere, and opening the panel on whichever display you're actually using, are included too. (Because the app identity changed, macOS asks once more for permission to show notifications.)

Installing

Requires macOS 26 (Tahoe, Apple Silicon). zero is signed ad-hoc, not notarized by
Apple, so a downloaded copy is quarantined and Gatekeeper refuses to launch it —
expected for a source-available app. The quarantine flag must be removed once.

Easiest — one command does everything (installs prerequisites, removes the
quarantine flag, launches):

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/drewling/zero/master/macapp/install-zero.sh | bash

By hand: open the DMG, drag zero to Applications, then in Terminal:

/usr/bin/xattr -cr /Applications/zero.app

Use the full /usr/bin/xattr path — a Python or Homebrew xattr earlier in your
PATH may not support the recursive flag and will silently fail, leaving the app
blocked. (On macOS 26 the old right-click → Open trick no longer works for
ad-hoc-signed apps.)

Full setup (Google + Claude CLIs, first run) is in the README.