Claude on the Notch

Notch Pilot was introduced as a Claude Code status panel that runs inside the MacBook notch.

• No menu bar icon, no dock icon — uses only the notch area
• Displays your Claude account's 5-hour session usage and weekly limit in real time
• Pulls numbers from the same oauth/usage endpoint that Claude Code uses
• Renders permission prompts inline
  • Shell commands are shown as code blocks
  • File edits are shown as red/green diffs
  • URLs are parsed and displayed
  • Supports Deny / Allow / Always allow, with always-allow recorded in ~/.claude/settings.json
• See the current session's project, model, uptime, and permission mode at a glance
• Visualizes usage traces with an activity timeline and a 24-hour heatmap
• Six character styles/colors/expressions react to Claude's actions, showing a startled expression when detecting dangerous commands (rm -rf /, DROP TABLE)

It states that all functionality runs locally only, with the only outbound network call being Anthropic's usage endpoint.

For installation, brew tap devmegablaster/devmegablaster and brew install --cask notch-pilot were presented, and the source is published in the GitHub repository devmegablaster/Notch-Pilot.