Merge pull request #125 from getagentseal/fix/menubar-force-redraw

fix(menubar): force status bar redraw and lift subprocess QoS

mac/Sources/CodeBurnMenubar/CodeBurnApp.swift

@@ -158,6 +158,11 @@ final class AppDelegate: NSObject, NSApplicationDelegate, NSPopoverDelegate {
             attributes: [.font: font, .foregroundColor: color]
         ))
         button.attributedTitle = composed
+        // Force immediate redraw. NSStatusItem sometimes defers the status bar paint for an
+        // accessory app that is not foreground, so the label visually freezes until the user
+        // opens the popover (which triggers NSApp.activate + a forced redraw cycle).
+        button.needsDisplay = true
+        button.display()
     }
 
     // MARK: - Popover

mac/Sources/CodeBurnMenubar/Security/CodeburnCLI.swift

@@ -41,6 +41,11 @@ enum CodeburnCLI {
         // `env --` treats everything following as argv, not VAR=val pairs -- guards against an
         // argument accidentally resembling an env assignment.
         process.arguments = ["--"] + baseArgv() + subcommand
+        // The menubar runs as an accessory app with no foreground window, and macOS
+        // background-throttles accessory apps and their children. Without this lift the
+        // codeburn subprocess parses 5-10x slower than the same command run from a
+        // user-interactive terminal, which starves the 15s refresh cadence on large corpora.
+        process.qualityOfService = .userInitiated
         return process
     }