Watch your Claude Code, Codex and Cursor usage from the Mac menu bar
After hitting rate limits mid-session, a developer built Tokenbar, a free open-source menu bar app that shows Claude Code, Codex and Cursor usage and pings you at 90%. It installs with Homebrew.
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@hritik73_ on X · 2026-10-09
Written in our own words. Credit to the original author. Link checked 2026-10-22.
What they did
After hitting rate limits mid-session, a developer built Tokenbar, a free open-source menu bar app that shows Claude Code, Codex and Cursor usage and pings you at 90%. It installs with Homebrew.
Result (as claimed)
Free and open source; you get a warning before a limit cuts off a session.
Tools they used
Cost: Claude Code: from $17/mo; OpenAI Codex: free plan, paid from $8/mo; Cursor: free plan, paid from $8/mo.
Set it up
Pick a contained repo or task
Start on a branch or side project where mistakes are cheap.
Install and configure
Set up Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, macOS. Read what it can run on your machine and limit permissions where possible.
Run it on a real task
Give it a well-scoped issue and let it work. Review the diff like any pull request.
Add guardrails
Keep tests and CI in the loop, and never let an agent push to main or touch production secrets unattended.
Copy the full setup prompt
Paste into your agent and it will walk you through the setup, asking before anything that sends, posts or spends.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Claude Code. Goal: Watch your Claude Code, Codex and Cursor usage from the Mac menu bar What the original author did: After hitting rate limits mid-session, a developer built Tokenbar, a free open-source menu bar app that shows Claude Code, Codex and Cursor usage and pings you at 90%. It installs with Homebrew. Reported result (as claimed by the author): Free and open source; you get a warning before a limit cuts off a session. Source: https://x.com/hritik73_/status/2108693357371490598 Tools they used: Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, macOS Category: Dev & ops Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Codex. Goal: Watch your Claude Code, Codex and Cursor usage from the Mac menu bar What the original author did: After hitting rate limits mid-session, a developer built Tokenbar, a free open-source menu bar app that shows Claude Code, Codex and Cursor usage and pings you at 90%. It installs with Homebrew. Reported result (as claimed by the author): Free and open source; you get a warning before a limit cuts off a session. Source: https://x.com/hritik73_/status/2108693357371490598 Tools they used: Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, macOS Category: Dev & ops Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Grok Bot. Goal: Watch your Claude Code, Codex and Cursor usage from the Mac menu bar What the original author did: After hitting rate limits mid-session, a developer built Tokenbar, a free open-source menu bar app that shows Claude Code, Codex and Cursor usage and pings you at 90%. It installs with Homebrew. Reported result (as claimed by the author): Free and open source; you get a warning before a limit cuts off a session. Source: https://x.com/hritik73_/status/2108693357371490598 Tools they used: Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Cursor, macOS Category: Dev & ops Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
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