CraftStick/ClaudeNotch

# Claude Notch
Claude Code in your MacBook's notch, like the Dynamic Island on an iPhone.
See what Claude is doing, how long it's been at it and when it needs you, and answer it right there.
And Clawd lives in the notch.
Coffee
Music
Magic
Pancakes
## Install
You need macOS 14 or later and Claude Code, in a terminal or in the Claude app.
1. Download ClaudeNotch-….dmg from the latest release and open Claude Notch right in it. Apple hasn't notarized it, so the first time macOS won't: click Done, then System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.
2. Click Move: it copies itself to Applications and opens from there.
3. When it asks to connect to Claude Code, click Connect. It adds its hooks to ~/.claude/settings.json and keeps the original next to it.
Or with Homebrew:
bash
brew install craftstick/tap/claude-notch
Then open Claude Notch from Applications (the first time: Done, then System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway) and click Connect. Update with brew upgrade claude-notch.
Update: open the new one from its disk image and click Move: it quits the old one and takes its place.
Uninstall: move the app to the Trash and click Remove All: its hooks, login item, settings and data go with it.
Build from source
bash
xcode-select --install # Apple's command line tools, if you don't have them yet
git clone https://github.com/CraftStick/ClaudeNotch.git ~/ClaudeNotch
cd ~/ClaudeNotch && ./install.sh
install.sh builds the app into /Applications and adds the hooks. Update with git pull && ./install.sh, remove with ./uninstall.sh, run the tests with swift test.
## What it does
Status in the notch. Clawd on the left, the task's time on the right, a counter when several sessions are at work. The notch opens for what matters: a new task, a failure, Claude waiting for you, done.
Details on hover. The task, what Claude is doing and why, its plan, subagents, recent actions, tokens and context, other sessions. A click brings forward the terminal tab or app the session runs in.
Answers from the notch. Allow or deny a permission request (⌃⌥⌘Y / ⌃⌥⌘N, or Always), and pick the answers to Claude's questions (⌃⌥⌘1…4).
Clawd. He types while Claude works, thinks, waves when it needs you, hops when it's done and dozes while he rests; he turns detective while Claude searches, packs papers into a box while it compacts and launches a rocket after a push. With Clawd stays in the notch on, he lives there for good, with pastimes of his own. All his animations →
Limits. When your plan's session or weekly limit runs out, the notch opens on Clawd by his hourglass and tells you when it resets; when it's back, he hops.
Telegram. Link your Mac to Claude Notch's bot with a code from the settings, and pick what it sends you: a limit ran out or is back, Claude is done, waiting for you, or hit an API error.
A sound when Claude is done or waiting for you, a glowing rim, English and Russian, your own shortcuts, an update check if you want one. All of it in the settings: Clawd's menu in the menu bar → Settings… (⌘,).
## Meet Clawd
He lives in the notch and reacts to everything Claude does, more than 40 animations in all.