Hey 👋 I'm Jay, the founder — here's the story behind Arrowslit and what I'd try first.

I built it because the notch was dead space while everything I checked all day lived in different menu bar apps. At the same time I was running Claude Code and Codex, and every approval or token check meant switching windows and losing my place.

The name is an arrowslit — a narrow opening in a castle wall. That felt right for the notch.

So Arrowslit is one panel that opens when you hover the top edge and closes when you move away: timer, media, calendar, clipboard, files, system stats, and AI agent approvals with Allow / Deny / Ask plus local token and plan usage.

It's free, GPL-3.0 open source, native Swift, no account and no telemetry. It works on Macs without a notch too.

Try this first: hover the top centre, start Focus 25m, then run a coding agent and approve its next command from the notch.

Tell me what feels slow or missing — I'll be in the comments.