Know when Claude Code needs you
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Claude Traffic Light

A tiny macOS menu bar bot that turns yellow the moment any Claude Code session is waiting on you.

Working
Needs you
Ready

Run a few sessions at once and stop checking terminals — one glance shows the most urgent state across all of them, with optional sound and notification alerts the moment a session is blocked or done. No setup — it plugs straight into Claude Code, and clicking a session jumps to its terminal.

In your menu bar

Mon 14:32

One session, working — just the bot, focused.

Mon 14:32

Six sessions — a dot per shell, most urgent first: 1 needs you · 3 working · 2 ready.

Mon 14:32

Everything ready — come collect your diffs.

More than six shells? The extra dots become a “+N”.

brew install --cask mitchelmckee/tap/claude-traffic-light copy
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Free & open source · macOS 13+ · Download the DMG