{"slug": "claude-outage-mac-menu-bar-item", "title": "Claude Outage – Mac Menu Bar Item", "summary": "A developer has released a free, open-source macOS menu bar app that displays the real-time status of Anthropic's Claude AI service as a colored dot, polling status.claude.com every 60 seconds and supporting login items. The app, built with a single Swift file and requiring macOS 13+, maps status indicators to green, yellow, red, or gray dots and provides detailed breakdowns of component statuses and active incidents.", "body_md": "A tiny macOS menu bar app that shows the current status of [status.claude.com](https://status.claude.com) as a colored dot.\n\n- 🟢\n**green**— all systems operational - 🟡\n**yellow**— minor issue or maintenance - 🔴\n**red**— major or critical outage - ⚪️\n**gray**— the status check itself failed (offline, etc.)\n\nClick the dot for a breakdown: overall description, every component with its own status, any active incidents (click to open the status page), and the time of the last check.\n\nPolls every 60 seconds, plus an immediate re-check when the Mac wakes from sleep.\n\n```\n./build.sh          # produces ClaudeStatus.app\nopen ClaudeStatus.app\n```\n\nSingle-file Swift, no dependencies. Requires macOS 13+ and the Xcode command line tools.\n\n**Settings → Start at Login** in the app's menu. If macOS parks the request behind an\napproval, the app opens the Login Items pane in System Settings for you.\n\nYou can also toggle it from the command line:\n\n```\nClaudeStatus.app/Contents/MacOS/ClaudeStatus --login-status\nClaudeStatus.app/Contents/MacOS/ClaudeStatus --login on\nClaudeStatus.app/Contents/MacOS/ClaudeStatus --login off\n```\n\nReads the standard Statuspage summary endpoint:\n\n```\nhttps://status.claude.com/api/v2/summary.json\n```\n\nThe menu bar dot maps `status.indicator`\n\n(`none`\n\n/ `minor`\n\n/ `major`\n\n/ `critical`\n\n/\n`maintenance`\n\n) to a color; each row in the menu maps that component's own status\n(`operational`\n\n/ `degraded_performance`\n\n/ `partial_outage`\n\n/ `major_outage`\n\n/\n`under_maintenance`\n\n) the same way.\n\nPublic domain — [the Unlicense](https://unlicense.org/). No copyright. Clone it, fork it,\nmodify it, ship it, sell it, no attribution needed. See [LICENSE](/titojankowski/claude-status/blob/main/LICENSE).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-outage-mac-menu-bar-item", "canonical_source": "https://github.com/titojankowski/claude-status", "published_at": "2026-07-29 21:07:58+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-29 21:22:37.222283+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "developer-tools"], "entities": ["Anthropic", "Claude", "macOS", "Xcode"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-outage-mac-menu-bar-item", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-outage-mac-menu-bar-item.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-outage-mac-menu-bar-item.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/claude-outage-mac-menu-bar-item.jsonld"}}