Vantage

Keep an eye on every Claude Code session — right from your menu bar.

Two dots in your menu bar tell you how much Claude Code headroom you have left. One click shows every live session at a glance — context, cost, subagents, and which one needs you. 100% local: no network, no telemetry, no account.

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Why Vantage

Running several Claude Code sessions at once, it's hard to know which one needs attention — which is about to hit a rate limit, which is nearly out of context, which is quietly burning money, and which is waiting on you. Vantage surfaces all of it natively, at a glance, without ever leaving your menu bar and without sending a single byte anywhere.

Features

• Account rate-limit gauges. Your 5-hour and weekly (all-models) limits as green→yellow→red bars with live reset countdowns — plus two colored dots in the menu bar so you can read your headroom without even clicking.
• Concurrent-session pressure board. Every live session as a context-fill bar, most-recently- active first — so you instantly see which one is about to need a /compact.
• Rich per-session cards. Model, repo, git branch, token counts, lines changed, and a click-to-copy session ID. An idle-age badge and an inferred "awaiting your input?" badge flag the session that needs you.
• A cost metric you choose. Pick one per card in Settings: Spend composition (where the dollars go), Cache savings ("you saved $X"), Effective $/Mtoken, or Subagent fan-out & delegation share.
• Tidy by default. Sessions idle over 24 h tuck under "Older sessions"; the popover stays compact and fast.
• Private by design. Zero network calls, zero telemetry, zero third-party SDKs. Vantage only ever reads your local ~/.claude data. Signed with a Developer ID and notarized by Apple.

Settings

Choose which cost metric each session card shows, toggle the attention badges, and find the support link — all from a single pane.

Requirements

• macOS 15 (Sequoia) or later
• Apple Silicon (M-series)
• Claude Code

Install

1. Download the latest Vantage.dmg from the Releases page.
2. Open it and drag Vantage to your Applications folder.
3. Launch it — two colored dots appear in your menu bar. Click them for the full popover.

It's notarized, so it opens with no Gatekeeper warning.

Coming soon: the first signed, notarized release. ⭐ this repo to be notified.

How it works

Vantage reads the session data Claude Code already writes under ~/.claude — entirely on your machine. A tiny bundled helper can be registered as Claude Code's statusLine.command to capture the live rate-limit + context-window readings the transcript alone doesn't carry. No servers, no sign-in, ever.

Support

Vantage is free. If it saves you time, you can leave a tip:

☕ ko-fi.com/maskull42

Appreciated — never required.

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_{Built for people who run a lot of Claude Code. macOS · SwiftUI · zero network.}