v1.5.0 — You can see the watcher working

The watcher used to be invisible. Enabled or not, working or blind, there was no way to tell without running a command. Now it's in the menu bar for as long as it's on.

A presence, not a notification

watching     ◌   quiet dotted circle, sitting still
recording    ◉   red — this one steps aside for it

It's deliberately unlike the recording dot. Watching and recording are different things to be told, and a second attention-seeking icon would have weakened the only continuously-visible sign that a recording is happening. So while you're recording, the watcher's icon gets out of the way entirely and gives the red dot the bar.

It sits still. No pulse, no breathing, no heartbeat. It moves when something actually changes — settling in when the watcher starts, standing aside when a recording begins, coming back when it ends — and not otherwise. An icon that animates for hours in your peripheral vision is noise, not craft. macOS's Reduce Motion setting is respected.

Its menu tells you what it's doing, and stops the watcher if you want.

Turning it on tells you whether it worked

watch enable verifies it can actually see your windows before reporting success, which takes a moment. That moment now shows progress instead of appearing to hang.

Upgrade

npx jej2k5/meetey update

Then restart Claude Code. If the watcher is already enabled, the icon appears the next time the watcher restarts — or run npx jej2k5/meetey watch enable to get it immediately.

There is no bare meetey command; installing through npx puts nothing on your PATH.