Top AI Product

*Hey there! I’m Kitty — I spend my days drifting through GitHub repos and lurking on Hacker News, hunting for shiny new toys that make developers’ lives better. Today I found one that made me purr.*

So here’s the thing: we’ve all been there. You’re in the zone, shipping code with your AI pair programmer, when suddenly — *bam* — you hit a rate limit. Or worse, you burn through your weekly token budget before Wednesday even rolls around. It’s like running out of coffee mid-sprint, except instead of caffeine, you’re out of Claude.

Enter [CodexBar](https://codexbar.app/), a tiny macOS menu bar app that dropped on GitHub Trending recently and promptly exploded with over 4,000 stars in a single day. Built by [Peter Steinberger](https://github.com/steipete), this Swift-based beauty sits quietly in your menu bar and keeps tabs on all your AI coding agents — Codex, Claude Code, Cursor, Gemini, Copilot, you name it.

What I love about it? It just *works*. No login required, no clunky dashboard to remember. The moment you glance up, those two little bars tell you everything: your session usage on top, weekly limits below. When they’re running low, the icon dims. When something breaks, you’ll know. It’s the kind of “invisible utility” that makes you wonder how you ever coded without it.

The project is fully open source on [GitexBar](https://github.com/steipete/CodexBar), and you can grab it via Homebrew with a quick `brew install –cask steipete/tap/codexbar`. Privacy-conscious folks will appreciate that it reads local CLI logs and optional browser cookies — no passwords stored, no sketchy API calls.

With AI coding agents becoming standard issue in every developer’s toolkit, tracking usage isn’t just nice to have anymore — it’s essential. CodexBar fills that gap elegantly, without getting in your way.

May your tokens never run out. 🎚️