Menu Bar App (Archived)

DEPRECATED — PROJECT ARCHIVED. This page documents a historical integration. The the-brain menu bar app is no longer maintained or supported.

Historical Installation

The former macOS installer built the menu bar app and configured its LaunchAgent. New installations are not supported.

Historical Features

The historical app provided:

• Status indicator: Green dot = daemon running, gray = stopped
• Memory counts: Instant / Selection / Deep layers
• Quick actions: Consolidate, Train, Wiki Generate
• Drag & drop: Drop files onto the menu bar icon to ingest them
• Remote mode: Read THE_BRAIN_REMOTE_URL and THE_BRAIN_AUTH_TOKEN from the environment

Historical LaunchAgent

The menu bar app started automatically on login via ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.thebrain.bar.plist.

The daemon also auto-started via ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.thebrain.daemon.plist.

the-brain daemon enable   # Enable auto-launch
the-brain daemon disable  # Disable auto-launch

Historical Source Build

cd apps/menu-bar
swift build
open .

Troubleshooting

"missing required module 'SwiftShims'"

If you renamed or moved the project directory, Swift's precompiled module cache retains stale paths:

cd apps/menu-bar
swift package clean
swift build -c release