Claude Outage – Mac Menu Bar Item

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.

A tiny macOS menu bar app that shows the current status of status.claude.com https://status.claude.com as a colored dot. - 🟢 green — all systems operational - 🟡 yellow — minor issue or maintenance - 🔴 red — major or critical outage - ⚪️ gray — the status check itself failed offline, etc. Click 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. Polls every 60 seconds, plus an immediate re-check when the Mac wakes from sleep. ./build.sh produces ClaudeStatus.app open ClaudeStatus.app Single-file Swift, no dependencies. Requires macOS 13+ and the Xcode command line tools. Settings → Start at Login in the app's menu. If macOS parks the request behind an approval, the app opens the Login Items pane in System Settings for you. You can also toggle it from the command line: ClaudeStatus.app/Contents/MacOS/ClaudeStatus --login-status ClaudeStatus.app/Contents/MacOS/ClaudeStatus --login on ClaudeStatus.app/Contents/MacOS/ClaudeStatus --login off Reads the standard Statuspage summary endpoint: https://status.claude.com/api/v2/summary.json The menu bar dot maps status.indicator none / minor / major / critical / maintenance to a color; each row in the menu maps that component's own status operational / degraded performance / partial outage / major outage / under maintenance the same way. Public domain — the Unlicense https://unlicense.org/ . No copyright. Clone it, fork it, modify it, ship it, sell it, no attribution needed. See LICENSE /titojankowski/claude-status/blob/main/LICENSE .