pitboard, so both see the same accounts, parked logins and log. It says what the menu bar app says, in sentence case, and has no Claude Desktop accounts.
Its windows are the Pitboard window, each account’s window and the Open link window. Closing the Pitboard window leaves Pitboard running, and Exit in its menu stops it.
Opened from the Start menu, Pitboard opens its window. Started when you sign in to Windows, it opens none. Opened while it runs, it brings its window to the front.
Strings here are those the app shows while one tool has accounts. Accounts of several tools lists those that change once more tools do.
Icon in the notification area
Pitboard’s icon shows the Pitboard mark. Windows puts a new icon in the overflow, behind the arrow at the end of the taskbar. Drag it onto the taskbar to keep it in sight.
To reach the icon from the keyboard, press Win+B, then the arrow keys. While the icon is in the overflow, first press Enter on the arrow to open the overflow.
Its tooltip reads Pitboard, then the label and percentage the menu bar item would show, such as Pitboard, work 42%. Menu bar item says which account and which limit those follow. With several tools, the tool’s name ends it: Pitboard, work 42%, Claude Code.
Menu
Right-clicking Pitboard’s icon opens its menu: what needs attention, then the accounts, then the commands. Where the menu bar app shows a line under an item, this menu shows it as the item’s tooltip. What needs attention, in this order:
A dot marks the account in use in each tool. An account shows its label, its email address while it has none, or Login Pitboard can’t use. Where its login says a plan, the plan follows, as in work · Max 20x. The percentage the menu bar item would show of it comes last: work · Max 20x · 42%. An account whose tooltip says what stands in its way, such as Needs signing in again, shows none. Account status explains its tooltip. With several tools, each tool’s name heads its accounts.
Instead of accounts, the menu can show Reading accounts, No accounts yet or No accounts to show, when the menu bar app shows them. Selecting an account does what it does there.
The commands, in this order:
Window
The Pitboard window’s navigation pane holds Accounts, Activity and This PC, with Settings at its foot. The window opens on Accounts, at the place and size it had when you last closed it. In a narrow window, the pane folds behind a button in the title bar.Accounts
Accounts lists notices, then at most one setup tip, then the accounts by tool. Under its title, Updated 20:52, or Reading during a read. Beside it, Refresh (F5 or Ctrl+R) and Add account (Ctrl+N). Instead of the list, it can show:
Notices, most pressing first. Each shows an x to close it where the menu bar app shows Dismiss:
Under Switched to work, a Claude Code switch counts down to when open sessions follow. A Codex switch says that sessions started before it keep the old account until they restart.
Activity
Activity lists the last 500 changes in Pitboard’s log, newest first, from the app and the command line, with Refresh (F5 or Ctrl+R). With nothing logged, it shows No activity. Its columns are Date, in your PC’s date and time format, Change, Account, Result and Asked by. They hold what the menu bar app’s Activity pane holds.This PC
This PC runs the checks ofpitboard doctor each time you show it. It shows Checking this PC until the first ones finish. Under its title, doctor’s summary line, such as One thing is worth looking at., sits beside Checked at 14:05.
Each check shows a mark for whether it holds, warns or fails, its name, what it found and, when it did not pass, what to do. Check again (F5 or Ctrl+R) runs them again. Right-click what a check found for Copy (Ctrl+C) and Select all (Ctrl+A).
Account actions
Right-clicking an account in Accounts, or selecting it and pressing Shift+F10 or the menu key, opens its shortcut menu. Forwork, it lists, in order:
Dialogs and alerts
Dialogs open over the Pitboard window.
A name breaks the same rules as in the menu bar app, with the same lines under the field, and the dialog’s button stays dimmed. If an action fails, its dialog stays open and says why, under a title such as Couldn’t sign in to work.
Sign in turns the dialog into Signing in to Claude Code or Signing in to Codex. It shows a progress ring until the tool says you are in, and Sign-in page with Copy link and Open, dimmed until the tool gives the page’s address. Once Claude Code asks for a code, a Code field and Submit code appear. Cancel stops the sign-in.
Each says what the menu bar app’s says, as its Alerts lists, with on this PC for on this Mac.