Brimline

Settings

Open Settings… from the bottom of the window. Five tabs.

Accounts

  • The accounts found, with their provider, address, folder and state.
  • Show: a switch to show or hide each account in the window. Custom label: a name of your own, shown with the address.
  • Add a Claude Code folder… for a folder Brimline did not find by itself (Remove takes it out of the list again), and Search again.
  • The How do I link an account? link, which opens the guide to linking an account (the same steps as Link your accounts).
  • One block per provider, with a switch, one line that says what Brimline reads and where it asks (What is read opens the documentation), and a Don't read this account box per account. Claude is on; ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok and Cursor are off until you turn them on, and a provider that is off is not touched at all. Add a Codex folder… adds a Codex folder that is somewhere else. See Link your accounts.
  • A Color line under each account: ten colors, Other color… and Reset to default, with a warning when two colors are close or a color is hard to see. See the color of an account.
  • A Claude Code reports block, with the command to copy for each Claude account. See Claude Code reports.
The Accounts tab of the Brimline settings, with its five tabs (Accounts, General, Menu Bar, Agents, About): a note saying Brimline only reads the providers you turn on and that the color of an account is used for its share of the gauge and its dot, the How do I link an account? link, the Claude block with its switch, and example Claude accounts (your@claude.ai, team@claude.ai), each with a dot of its color, its folder, a Show switch, a custom label, a Color line with the ten colors of the palette, and a Don't read this account box.
The Accounts tab.

General

  • Refresh every 2, 5 (default), 10 or 15 min: how often Brimline reads the limits. Refresh, in the window, reads at once.
  • Show the percentage in the menu bar, next to the gauge.
  • Open at login: the app writes a LaunchAgent, ~/Library/LaunchAgents/eu.thanaelfontaine.brimline.plist, and removes it when you turn the option off.
The General tab of the Brimline settings: Refresh every 5 min, Show the percentage in the menu bar (off) with the note “The menu bar gauge shows each account's share; the percentage next to it is the most loaded account's.”, and Open at login (on).
The General tab (in English).

Where to turn off the icons of Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor in their own apps, and Hide without removing, which is off by default: Brimline adds a thin bar of its own to the menu bar, you drag the icons to hide to the left of it once with Command held down, then a click on the bar (or Hide the icons) hides them, and the bar becomes an arrow « that brings them back. On macOS 27, macOS asks for the Accessibility permission the first time (it may have to be given again after an update), and Brimline must be in the Applications folder. Apple does not document the technique, tried on macOS 27.0.1 on a screen without a notch only. See hide the icons of other apps.

The Hide without removing part of the Menu Bar tab of the Brimline settings, with the switch “Hide the icons placed left of the bar” turned on: the gesture to make once with Command held down, a small picture of four icons hidden left of the bar, the text saying that a click on the bar hides them in place, one after the other toward the bar, which becomes an arrow «, and that macOS asks for the Accessibility permission the first time and that it may have to be given again after an update, the Hide the icons button, and a note on the allow-list of macOS 27, which Apple does not document.
Hide without removing, in the settings.

Agents

The path of the brimline command, the line to Add to Claude Code, the MCP configuration (JSON) for other clients, each with a Copy button, and the path of the cache the command and the MCP server read. See For agents.

The Agents tab of the Brimline settings: a link to the agents documentation, the path of the command, the line to add Brimline to Claude Code, and the MCP configuration in JSON, each with a Copy button.
The Agents tab (in English).

About

The version, the license (“Public source code under the PolyForm Shield 1.0.0 license”), and links to the code on GitHub and to the documentation. A link to this site will come once it is online.

The About tab of the Brimline settings: the app icon, the name, the version (a development build), Public source code under the PolyForm Shield 1.0.0 license, and links to GitHub and the documentation.
The About tab (in English).

Languages

Brimline speaks English and French, and follows the language of your Mac.