Answer Claude from your Stream Deck.

Allow once, allow always, deny, stop, "continue" — the prompts you answer fifty times a day, on physical keys. Plus Claude's own shortcuts, a live status.claude.com light, and your usage budget on the whole deck when you step away.

Download plugin Source on GitHub

macOS · Stream Deck 6.9+ · one-click install: actions, a ready profile and the helper app. Free and open source (MIT). Also on the Elgato Marketplace; this GitHub build adds a Buy me a Ko-fi key.

Token budget

Walk away, and the deck tells you what's left.

Thirty seconds without a press and every key becomes one chart — session, weekly and the per-model cap, a limit per row, the row's full width being 0 to 100%. Touch any key and your layout is back; that first press is swallowed, so waking the deck can never fire Allow or Deny. The Claude Usage key toggles the same view on demand.

A Stream Deck MK.2 showing three usage bars across its keys: session 34%, weekly 68%, and a red Fable bar at 86% that is past its on-pace mark

The vertical mark	How far through that window you already are. Bar behind the mark means you are under pace; past it means you are burning faster than the window allows, and the bar turns red.
The caption	Where you land at this rate — `~8% left` at the reset, or `limit 20h 11m` if you are on course to run out before it.
Where the numbers come from	The same source as the desktop app's usage popup: your existing Claude Code sign-in, read locally on this Mac. Nothing is sent anywhere, and nothing is polled at all while you are using the deck.

Eleven actions

Drag what you need.

The plugin adds a "Deck for Claude" group to the Stream Deck action list — the same way any other plugin does. The bundled profile is one arrangement; every key is replaceable.

All actions: Allow once, Allow for session, Always allow, Deny, Stop, Reply, Shortcut, Activate Claude, Claude Status, Claude Usage, Inspect

Allow once · Allow for session · Always allow · Deny	Presses that button in the permission prompt that is currently on screen. The desktop app has no keyboard shortcuts for these, so the helper finds the button through macOS Accessibility and presses it — about 50 ms.
Stop	Brings Claude to the front and presses `Esc`.
Reply	Types a text you configure ("continue", "yes", "fix it", "commit"…) and presses Return. Claude is activated first, so it never types into the wrong window.
Shortcut	Sends one of the app's own accelerators: new chat `⌘N`, new Claude Code session `⌘⇧O`, search `⌘⇧K`, command palette `⌘K`, sidebar `⌘B`, previous / next session `⌘⇧[` `⌘⇧]`, side chat `⌘;`.
Claude Status	Polls status.claude.com every minute. Green, yellow, orange, red follow the incident level; the small line names the affected component. Press opens the status page.
Claude Usage	Session, weekly and per-model limits with the on-pace mark and forecast. Alone on a row it is a compact three-bar tile; press it to turn the whole deck into the chart. Several on one row share a single wide bar across those keys.
Activate Claude · Inspect	Bring the app forward; write every button label Claude exposes to a log — the repair tool for the day a button gets renamed. Inspect is off the 15-key profile by default now that Usage has that spot; drag it on when you need it.

Claude Status key in its five states: OK, Minor, Major, Critical, offline

Every deck size

Mini, MK.2, XL — a profile for each.

The installer carries three ready-made profiles — Claude (MK.2, 5×3), Claude Mini (3×2) and Claude XL (8×4) — and Stream Deck installs only the one that matches your device. Six essentials on the Mini; the full set with spare replies and every shortcut on the XL. The MK.2 and XL layouts keep one key for Claude Usage — the Mini spends all six on controls and relies on the idle chart instead.

Claude XL — 8×4

Claude Mini — 3×2

How it works

A URL, a small app, a button press.

Nothing runs in the background besides the plugin itself. Each key press travels this path:

Stream Deck plugin

Node.js, Elgato SDK v2. A key press opens claudedeck://always-allow.

ClaudeDeck.app

A tiny URL-scheme handler in ~/Applications, installed by the plugin on first start.

axpress

Swift helper inside the app. Walks Claude's accessibility tree and presses the matching button.

Claude

The prompt is answered. Works even when Claude isn't the front window.

The usage chart takes a different path: it reads the OAuth token Claude Code keeps in your login keychain and asks Anthropic's usage endpoint for your limits — only while the chart is on screen, so there is no traffic while you are working the deck. That endpoint is undocumented and rate-limited, so the plugin backs off when told to and keeps showing the last good figures.

Install

Three steps, once.

Download and double-click

com.4xsdev.claude.streamDeckPlugin — Stream Deck asks to install the plugin. It brings the Deck for Claude actions, a ready profile for your deck (Mini, MK.2 or XL), and the helper app.

Grant Accessibility

macOS asks once for ClaudeDeck under System Settings → Privacy & Security → Accessibility. This is what lets it press buttons in Claude.

Switch to the Claude profile

Or drag single actions from the "Deck for Claude" group onto keys of your own profile. Reply and Shortcut keys have settings in the inspector.

Requires the Claude desktop app for macOS. The helper is a small AppleScript + Swift bundle whose source is in the repo; it talks only to the Claude app and to status.claude.com.

Other Stream Deck plugins.

Physical keys for the tools you already use. All free and open source.