{"id":300,"date":"2026-09-23T23:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T14:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/roobooto.com\/ai-status-mac-menu-bar-app-for-ai-coding-agents\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T23:28:58","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T14:28:58","slug":"ai-status-mac-menu-bar-app-for-ai-coding-agents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roobooto.com\/en\/ai-status-mac-menu-bar-app-for-ai-coding-agents\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Status: See What Your AI Coding Agents Are Doing, Right from the Mac Menu Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Know When Your Agents Finish \u2014 or Need You<\/h2>\n<p>AI Status is a free Mac app that shows what the AI coding agents on your Mac are doing. Start a long task with Codex, Claude Code, or Hermes and step away: the menu bar icon moves while agents work, and a badge appears when one is waiting for your decision.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"margin: 8px 0 24px;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-292\" src=\"https:\/\/roobooto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ai-status-mac-menu-bar-panel-1024x640.png\" alt=\"AI Status menu bar panel showing active agent sessions\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:14px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roobooto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ai-status-mac-menu-bar-panel-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/roobooto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ai-status-mac-menu-bar-panel-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/roobooto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ai-status-mac-menu-bar-panel.png 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Open the menu bar panel to see every active session at a glance: its name, project, current activity, model, and CPU and memory use. The floating window keeps the same view beside your work, and a keyboard shortcut opens it from any app.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"margin: 8px 0 24px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-293\" src=\"https:\/\/roobooto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ai-status-mac-floating-window-1024x640.png\" alt=\"AI Status floating window\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border-radius:14px;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roobooto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ai-status-mac-floating-window-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/roobooto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ai-status-mac-floating-window-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/roobooto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ai-status-mac-floating-window.png 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Turn on iCloud sync and the same status appears on your iPhone and Apple Watch, so you know when to come back even when you&#8217;re away from your desk. The iPhone and Apple Watch apps are coming soon to the App Store.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display:flex; flex-wrap:wrap; justify-content:center; align-items:flex-end; gap:24px; margin: 8px 0 24px;\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-296\" src=\"https:\/\/roobooto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ai-status-iphone-light-471x1024.png\" alt=\"AI Status on iPhone\" width=\"471\" height=\"1024\" style=\"width:200px; max-width:44%; height:auto; border-radius:26px; box-shadow:0 8px 24px rgba(0,0,0,0.12);\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roobooto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ai-status-iphone-light-471x1024.png 471w, https:\/\/roobooto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ai-status-iphone-light-138x300.png 138w, https:\/\/roobooto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ai-status-iphone-light-scaled.png 1178w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 471px) 100vw, 471px\" \/><br \/>\n  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-298\" src=\"https:\/\/roobooto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ai-status-apple-watch.png\" alt=\"AI Status on Apple Watch\" width=\"416\" height=\"496\" style=\"width:170px; max-width:38%; height:auto; border-radius:38px; box-shadow:0 8px 24px rgba(0,0,0,0.12);\" srcset=\"https:\/\/roobooto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ai-status-apple-watch.png 416w, https:\/\/roobooto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/ai-status-apple-watch-252x300.png 252w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 416px) 100vw, 416px\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<p>AI Status needs no account, and nothing about your work is sent to us. It only reads the agents&#8217; session files in folders you allow, and the status summary goes to your own private iCloud.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center; margin: 24px 0 8px;\">\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/roobooto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/AI-Status-1.0.zip\" style=\"display:inline-block; padding:12px 28px; border-radius:999px; background:#0071e3; color:#ffffff; font-weight:600; text-decoration:none;\">Download for Mac<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin:10px 0 0; font-size:0.9em; color:#6e6e73;\">Version 1.0 \u00b7 3 MB \u00b7 macOS 13 or later<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Setup, FAQ, and support: <a href=\"https:\/\/roobooto.com\/en\/ai-status\/\">AI Status<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Know When Your Agents Finish \u2014 or Need You AI Status is a free Mac app that shows what the AI coding agents on your Mac are doing. Start a long task with Codex, Claude Code, or Hermes and step away: the menu bar icon moves while agents work, and a badge appears when one &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/roobooto.com\/en\/ai-status-mac-menu-bar-app-for-ai-coding-agents\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;AI Status: See What Your AI Coding Agents Are Doing, Right from the Mac Menu Bar&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":293,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-service"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.5","language":"en","enabled_languages":["ja","en","tw","zh"],"languages":{"ja":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"tw":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"zh":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/roobooto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/roobooto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/roobooto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roobooto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roobooto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/roobooto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"https:\/\/roobooto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roobooto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/roobooto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roobooto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/roobooto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}