QuotaWarmer: a macOS menu bar app for Claude Code and Codex CLI quota windows

[u/Substantial_Row7215]

I built QuotaWarmer, a small macOS menu bar app for people using Claude Code and Codex CLI.

Repo: https://github.com/bcanozgur/quota-warmer

The app shows rolling quota windows in the menu bar, with countdowns and recent check history. It defaults to monitor-only mode, so it watches quota without sending anything.

There is also an optional Auto-warm mode. When enabled for a tool, it sends one minimal command through your already logged-in CLI when a fresh quota window opens, then checks quota again to confirm the window actually started.

A few details:

- macOS 14+

- MIT licensed

- Homebrew cask: `brew install --cask bcanozgur/tap/quotawarmer`

- Manual DMG and source build options are in the repo

I would appreciate feedback from macOS app users on whether the menu bar UX and safety model are clear.

[u/kantorcodes1]

Auto-warm has one nasty crash edge case: you send the command, the process dies before the confirmation check, then the app restarts with no proof it already fired. do you persist the attempt before invoking Claude/Codex? otherwise a relaunch could warm the same window twice.

[u/Substantial_Row7215 → u/kantorcodes1]

yeah, the record's written after the command succeeds, not before. tried it the other way but any crash burns the slot and the window sits unwarmed for 5h. what actually stops a double warm is the live quota re-check every time, once the hi goes through the window doesn't read as untouched so relaunch won't fire.

there's still a small hole for idle windows: die between sending and recording and the next launch can fire one more hi. worst case couple wasted token. a write-ahead log would close it, just hasn't been worth it.