Your Touch Bar is back on the payroll.
RehireBar is a native MacBook Pro Touch Bar monitor for local and remote AI tasks, model, context, and quota. Codex is built in; other agents connect through a status publisher.
Illustrative composite with example task data. Image credits.
Full Touch Bar
Full, uncropped Touch Bar capture with example task names and values. Left: quota remaining and reset time. Each task: status, model/effort, and context used. Running tasks also show elapsed time.
- See running, waiting, failed, syncing, and unknown task states.
- Tap a task to open it. Swipe for the rest.
- Unavailable data stays hidden. Stale active states expire.
- Collapse it, and ordinary refreshes leave it collapsed.
Requires macOS 15+ and a physical Touch Bar. The Codex integration needs Codex CLI; task navigation needs Codex Desktop. See tested clients and support boundaries.
Download Apple Silicon or Intel from the latest release, verify its checksum, and move the extracted app to Applications.
The app is ad-hoc signed and not notarized. See Installation for first launch. Xcode is only needed to build from source:
bash scripts/build-app.sh
open 'dist/RehireBar.app'Give this repository to the coding agent you already use and let it help connect your tools and build your own RehireBar. The interface docs, examples, and build scripts are already included.
To connect another agent, build a status publisher that atomically writes to ~/Library/Application Support/RehireBar/agents/<provider>.json. The existing UI reads the shared contract.
- Start with the interface contract, JSON Schema, and example document.
- Customize model abbreviations through the model display interface, rules and mapping tables, and configuration Schema.
- For changes to the app itself, read AGENTS.md, Architecture, and Contributing.
Usage · Agent interface · Contributing · Security · MIT
Runs locally, with no project telemetry. Private macOS and Codex interfaces can change. Independent community project, not affiliated with Apple or OpenAI.
Based on Codex Status Touch Bar by Wongsakorn Uphonram. Attribution.