Aignals is a free, open-source macOS menu bar traffic light for vibe coding with Claude Code. Every session gets its own colored light — so you know at a glance which ones are working, which need a click, and which are waiting on you. Plus a daily quote, a work stopwatch, and Feishu notifications.
or brew install --cask aignals after brew tap Jesse1211/aignals
The menu bar shows a compact count like 🔴2 🟡1 🟢3. Each session is one light:
Four built-in themes, switchable any time from Settings → Theme. Try them live:
A glanceable count in the menu bar; everything else one click away.
A fresh quote at the top of the dropdown each day, from API Ninjas. Pick a category, hit refresh for another, and save the ones you love. Toggle it off any time.
Clock in when you start, pause for breaks, clock out when you're done. It logs each day's real work time, survives restarts, and rolls over at local midnight — browse the daily history any time.
Get a Feishu (Lark) message the moment a session needs you — the same lights, now on your phone. Bring your own webhook.
A gentle, different chime when a session needs permission or input — never while it's just working. Mute per-session or globally.
Give sessions real names, pin the important one to the top, drag the rest into the order you like. It persists.
Each row ticks live, so you can see how long a turn has been running or how long it's been waiting on you.
Hooks write a tiny JSON file per session; the app watches it. Any tool that writes the file can drive the lights — not only Claude Code.
One click wires up the Claude Code hooks (absolute paths, no PATH surprises). One click removes everything again.
A lightweight SwiftUI menu bar app. No Dock icon, no daemon, no telemetry. Free and open source.
macOS 14+. The build is self-signed (free OSS — no paid notarization), so the first open needs a right-click.
brew tap Jesse1211/aignals
brew install --cask aignals.dmg from the latest release, or run the Homebrew commands above.Homebrew tracks new releases automatically:
brew update
brew upgrade --cask aignalsYour settings and data in ~/.aignals (saved quotes, work log, config) are kept across updates — only the app is replaced. Not on Homebrew? Just download the newer .dmg and drag it over the old app.
Uninstall. The cleanest way is Settings → Uninstall Aignals… — it removes Aignals' Claude Code hooks, the CLI link, and (optionally) your data, then you trash the app. If you installed via Homebrew you can also brew uninstall --zap --cask aignals to remove the app + ~/.aignals, but that can't edit ~/.claude/settings.json — so run the in-app uninstall first (or remove Aignals' hook entries by hand) to fully clean up.