claude-pulse

Pulse for Claude Code

Claude Code, with a pulse.

A local dashboard that watches every Claude Code (and Codex) session on your machine, gives it a literal heartbeat, and lets you approve its tool calls from your phone or a strip under your MacBook's notch. Zero dependencies. Nothing leaves your machine.

Covered by XDA Developers: "a must-have tool for anyone working with Claude."

Claude Code already writes every session to disk as it happens. Pulse reads those files, read only, no account, no telemetry, and turns them into something that feels less like a log viewer and more like a cockpit: live spend by hour, day and week, context fill per session, full-text search across everything you have ever run, scheduled messages that fire the moment your limit resets, and Allow / Allow all / Deny that follows you to your desktop, your phone, and your notch.

The pulse

*45 bpm. Claude is resting.*

The heart rate is real: tool calls and generated tokens over the last two minutes drive it from a resting ~45 up to ~185 when Claude is sprinting through a refactor. When you hit your usage limit, it flatlines. It beats in the topbar on every screen, and in the notch:

The notch

*A native always-on-top strip under your camera notch: state, today's numbers, context bar, burn rate, and working approval buttons. Hover it and it grows into a menu with every live session. Right-click to dismiss.*

claude-pulse notch (or the ▂ button in the dashboard) compiles a ~100-line Swift overlay once and pins it above every app and every Space. No Electron, no frameworks. The whole thing is an NSPanel and a WKWebView.

The office

*Claude at his desk in New York, doing your work while you watch like a benevolent manager.*

*Run Codex too? Its dashboard is a separate mono world, same building,…