Menu bar
Watch quota from the Mac menu bar.
ArthurBar is a Mac-only extra. The popover's quota bar is the loop's governor: percent left, reset time, GREEN / YELLOW / RED for the agents you configured. You do not open the console to see how much subscription is left. At the reserve line the loop checkpoints. The same popover shows workers, the queue, and a badge when a human decision or stale job needs you.
arthur status. SAMPLE_APP is blocked, so the menu extra badges 1.Install (macOS 14+ only)
pipx, uv, and the CLI curl | sh installer do not install ArthurBar. You need arthur already, plus Xcode or Command Line Tools. There is no Homebrew cask or signed .app yet — this builds from source on your Mac.
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/myrrazor/arthur-loop/main/menubar/install.sh | sh ArthurBar --root ~/my-loop
From a checkout: ./menubar/install.sh --root ~/my-loop. Add --login to start at login. The binary is ~/.local/bin/ArthurBar. Uninstall with rm ~/.local/bin/ArthurBar.
Quota
The quota bar is the loop's governor, not a decoration. It is the same meter arthur status prints. Point the governor at CodexBar (Codex, Claude, and the other subscriptions CodexBar already reads), or at a command or file. ArthurBar shows the primary remaining percent. At 5% remaining (the default reserve) the tick answers BLOCKED_BY_QUOTA and new work does not start.
What else you see
- Badge. Open decisions plus stale jobs. Hover for
POLL_DUE,HUMAN_INPUT_REQUIRED,BLOCKED_BY_QUOTA, … - Workers, queue, projects. Reporting sessions, ready or overdue jobs, which project is blocked.
- Needs you. Open decisions by title.
- Browser lock. Free, held, or stale.
ArthurBar reads arthur status --json and does not change loop state.
Alerts
The menu extra is the glance surface. For banners, arthur watch posts to Notification Center on decisions, quota blocks, due work, and stale jobs.
arthur watch arthur watch --once --no-desktop