Lancetta
Product Hunt Giovambattista Fazioli
Lancetta is a Mac menu bar app for Claude Code and Codex. It watches quotas and tells you when to push, pause, or switch agents before they stall.
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Lancetta is a native macOS menu-bar app built for people using Claude Code and Codex. Its pitch is simple: watch the quota, then tell you what to do next instead of making you guess.
The app reads quota status and turns that into plain guidance. Use a window that is about to reset. Slow down before an agent stops. Move to the other agent while it still has room. It also checks what the agents load each time it starts, and clears out the background processes they leave behind.
There’s a small but useful bit of organization baked in too. Lancetta keeps every session on one wall, with the ones waiting on you shown first. That makes it less of a dashboard and more of a traffic cop for coding agents.
The company says quota reading uses zero tokens, which is the kind of detail that matters if the whole point is not wasting anything else. Lancetta is free, signed, and requires macOS 15+.
My take — AI-written commentary, not fact-checked reporting
This is the sort of utility software that should have existed already. The real product here isn’t a menu bar icon; it’s fewer wasted agent cycles and fewer dead processes hanging around like bad houseguests. If AI coding tools are going to be treated like infrastructure, then someone has to build the boring control panel.
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