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Privacy

What Devbar reads on your Mac, what it sends over the network, and what it never touches.

Devbar has no account, no analytics, and no server of its own. Everything it shows comes from your Mac or from the AI tools you already use.

Logins

Devbar reuses the logins your AI tools already saved. It only reads them: it never refreshes a token or writes anything back, so it can’t sign you out of Codex, Claude Code, or Muse.

Tool Reads Sends a request to
Codex ~/.codex/auth.json chatgpt.com for your usage
Claude Claude Code’s Keychain item, or ~/.claude/.credentials.json api.anthropic.com for your usage
Muse ~/.config/muse/auth.json, or its Keychain item api.meta.ai, which returns a short-lived key that Devbar throws away

Keychain items are read through the system’s security tool and kept in memory only. Background refreshes never show a Keychain prompt; only opening the menu or choosing Refresh can.

Everything else stays local

  • Dev servers come from lsof on your Mac.
  • Worktrees come from scanning your home folder and running git locally, only while the Worktrees window is open.
  • Camera reads macOS’s camera permissions database read-only, and only with Full Disk Access.
  • Updates check the release feed on GitHub, without credentials or a system profile.