Argus — one menu bar icon to monitor/control local & remote AI services

[ramsnerm]

Sharing a SwiftBar plugin I've been using myself for a while: Argus.

I was running several MCP servers and local AI services at once (mcp-proxy,
ComfyUI, a local llama.cpp server for code completion, plus a few remote
MCP endpoints like Home Assistant and Forgejo/Gitea) and got tired of
switching to a terminal every time I just wanted to check "is X still
running?" or restart it. Argus puts all of that behind one menu bar icon —
status at a glance (SF Symbols, not color, so it matches native macOS
style), Start/Stop/Restart/Activate/Deactivate per service, update
notifications when a newer version is available, and read-only info
(version, loaded models, hosted MCP servers, ...).

One thing worth calling out for this repo: it's a personal, opinionated
setup published as a reference/starting point rather than a
plug-and-play install — the services and most paths/ports are specific to
how I run things locally. The README documents how to adapt it
(lib/config.local.sh for personal-but-not-secret values, Keychain for
actual secrets), and shows the shape a services/*.sh file follows if you
want to add your own.

Built with Claude Code as a pair-programming tool under my own direction
(what to monitor, how each menu should behave, which edge cases actually
mattered) — mentioning that since it seemed worth being upfront about.

Repo: https://github.com/ramsnerm/swiftbar-plugin-argus

Wouldn't exist without SwiftBar itself — thanks for building it.