Icons and badges
Every status icon, badge and dot in Claudette’s window, what it means, and the page that explains it. Hovering an icon shows a tooltip that says the same.
A tab’s status icon
The icon at the start of a tab’s row. See The sidebar.
| Icon | Tooltip | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| A pulsing dot | Working, or Starting… | Claude is working on a turn, or its Claude Code is starting. With reduced motion on, the dot doesn’t pulse. |
| A pulsing dot | Possibly stuck: no reply to two check-ins | A long turn got no answer to two check-ins. See Check-ins on long turns and A tab that seems stuck. |
!, highlighted |
Needs your input | A permission prompt, question or plan is waiting. See Permission cards. |
| A small dot | Finished while in the background | A turn ended while you were looking at another tab. It goes once you look. |
✕ in the error color |
The error | Claude Code stopped with an error, or couldn’t start. The row and the info card say why. See A tab that won’t start. |
| An empty circle | Not started yet, or Not running | A restored tab that hasn’t started its Claude Code yet, or one whose Claude Code has stopped. See Closing and restoring. |
| No icon | Idle | Nothing is happening. |
A collapsed group shows only the most urgent status of its tabs.
On a tab’s row
| Icon | What it means | More |
|---|---|---|
| A check mark, cross, question mark, star, flag or pause sign under the status icon | The mark you gave the tab, each in its own color | Names, marks and pins |
| A green disc with a check cut out of it, in the mark’s place | Every file Claude changed in this session is ticked as reviewed (All changed files reviewed) | Reviewed files |
| A pin | The tab is pinned, so it comes back every launch | Names, marks and pins |
| A sync icon | Synced to the session library, with how much the session takes there (· 312 MB) | Syncing a tab |
| A thread icon before the name | A thread, or a sub-thread indented under it | Making a thread |
| A branch icon with a name | The tab works in a worktree of that name | Worktree tabs |
| A phone | Connected to the Claude app. It’s dimmed while connecting or reconnecting | The Claude app |
| A gear | A process the tab started is using CPU | Processes |
| A small number | Subagents and tasks still running after the turn ended, such as 1 agent and 2 tasks still running | The agent map |
3/7 |
How many of Claude’s tasks are done. A click opens the Tasks page | The Tasks page |
A small bordered badge with a name, such as main |
The git branch (or the worktree’s name, or a short commit on a detached HEAD). A click offers Copy branch name | The sidebar |
CL 12345 |
The Perforce changelist Claude is working in, with Show changelist on tabs on | Perforce |
| A ring at the row’s end | How full the context window is: muted, amber near auto-compact, red from 95% | Context and compacting |
The second line of a row shows the model and effort, or what needs attention: Needs your input, the error, Possibly stuck, Usage limit · continues at 15:45 (When a limit stops a task), or the task Claude is working on.
Under a tab’s row
Each project job, such as a build, is a run under its tab’s row. See Project tools.
| Icon | What it means |
|---|---|
| A busy dot | The job is running. Stop takes the place of × |
| A check mark | It succeeded |
✕ in the error color |
It failed, with its exit code |
| A muted square | You stopped it |
The collapsed sidebar
The rail shows each group’s color, then a square per tab with the first letter of its name, a small status icon at its top right, and the mark or the reviewed icon at its bottom left. Hovering a square shows the tab’s info card. See The sidebar.
A group’s row
| Icon | What it means | More |
|---|---|---|
| Unreal Engine’s logo, a cube or Godot’s logo | The group’s project, an Unreal Engine, Unity or Godot project, whose menu has its actions and links. A folder when the folder has no project Claudette knows. A busy dot replaces it while a job runs | Project tools |
| A folder | Project files: the folder’s Files tab | Folder groups |
The foot of the sidebar
It shows, under a line, only while one of these does.
| Icon | What it means | More |
|---|---|---|
| A Claude Code update badge | A newer Claude Code is available | Claude Code’s updates |
| A Claudette update badge | A new Claudette release is available | Claudette’s updates |
| New build ready | A source build of Claudette has a new build to restart into | Running from source |
| 3 new commits on origin/main | A source build’s checkout is behind the branch it tracks | Running from source |
The header
| Icon | What it means | More |
|---|---|---|
| The session and weekly meters | How much of your plan’s limits you’ve used, with a warning color near the limit | The usage header |
| CPU and memory totals | Every tab’s processes added up, while the process monitor is on | Processes |
| A cup | Keep this computer awake: accent-colored while it’s on, and steaming while sleep is held off | Keeping the computer awake |
| A green dot | Claude’s services are operational | Claude is having problems |
| An amber dot | A service is degraded, or under maintenance | |
| A red dot | A service is in an outage | |
| A grey dot | The status is unknown, or hasn’t been checked yet | |
| Claudette’s logo, first | The window’s icon: on Windows a click opens the window menu, and a double-click closes the window; on a Mac it drags the window | A tour of the window |
| Three lines, after the logo | The menu: User Guide, Ask on Discord, Report an issue and About Claudette | A tour of the window |
| Sliders, last | Settings | The Settings window |
A banner under the header says what’s wrong while Claude has an incident. A line under the meters says so when usage is on pace to hit a limit.
Tool windows
- On the strip at the window’s right, a dot on an icon means its window has something going on: subagents active on Agents, a job running on Project, a server that needs attention on MCP. An icon is filled in while its window shows. See Tool windows.
- Changed files marks each file with
Mfor modified orAfor added. See Changed files. - Agents marks each agent with a dot while it runs or when it’s done,
!while it waits for your permission,✕when it failed, and a square when it was stopped. See The agent map.
The Dock and taskbar icon
On Windows, the taskbar button’s overlay shows the number of tabs needing input, Claude’s spark while tabs work, and an hourglass while a tab waits for a usage limit. On macOS, the Dock icon shows the number as a badge, and Claudette types, waves or waits by an hourglass. See The Dock and taskbar icon.
Accounts, Project files and the conversation
| Icon | What it means | More |
|---|---|---|
| A small tag with an account’s name beside a group’s label, or on a tab’s row | New tabs here run under that API-key account, or this tab does. Default’s tag is muted | A folder’s account |
| The key’s estimated spend in the header | A tab on an API-key account is selected | Spend and its warnings |
M or A at the right of an explorer row, and a dot on a folder |
Claude changed or created that file, or a file inside the folder. A reviewed file’s letter is faint | Claude’s changes in the editor |
| Marks beside the conversation’s scroll bar | Your messages, waiting prompts and errors. F3 and F4 move between messages |
Finding your way |
| Cache 52m beside the context | How long your next message can read the conversation from Claude’s cache. It turns amber in its last three minutes | The prompt cache |