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Burn AI
macOS menu bar: live state + cost of your coding agent
A tiny SwiftBar plugin that shows whether Claude Code / Codex / Aider is working, waiting, or stuck — plus the USD so far. Native, no Electron, no window. Open source.
Hey 👋 I'm Han — solo builder of Burn AI.
I kept losing 30+ minutes a day to a tiny problem: I'd walk away from my laptop thinking Claude Code was "working", come back to find it stuck waiting for permission 22 minutes ago, or worse — it had been burning tokens the whole time and racked up $14 I didn't notice.
So I built a 3.4MB SwiftBar plugin that sits in my menu bar and tells me, at a glance, the truth:
🔥 what the agent is doing right now (RUNNING / WAITING / IDLE / RAW)
💸 the USD so far for this session
🕐 how long it's been silent
It's 100% local. No Electron. No cloud. No telemetry. It just reads the JSONL traces your agent already writes (Claude Code, Codex, Aider), parses them, and draws a label. Native macOS, MIT-licensed.
What I'd love feedback on:
1. The cost display — should it show the running total only, or per-task breakdown? Right now it's session-level, which I find useful but a few testers wanted per-task.
2. The RAW state color — currently green (it's a healthy "agent is producing tokens" signal), but several people expected green to mean "done". Naming is hard.
3. Auto-show on state change — I'm on the fence. It pops the menu open when a long-running task starts, but some find it intrusive.
GitHub: https://github.com/hanzhangzzz/b...
Thanks for the launch — would love to hear what you build on top of the Agent Trace protocol, or what other "blind spots" you have with coding agents I should add next. 🙌
About Burn AI on Product Hunt
“macOS menu bar: live state + cost of your coding agent”
Burn AI was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #156 on the daily leaderboard. A tiny SwiftBar plugin that shows whether Claude Code / Codex / Aider is working, waiting, or stuck — plus the USD so far. Native, no Electron, no window. Open source.
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