app-inspector

app-inspector is an agent for coding agents from malob/nix-config. It costs 19 tokens per session (1,297 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A macOS app inspection agent for Homebrew Cask creation. Homebrew Casks are package definitions that install graphical macOS applications.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it with an app download URL to download the app, inspect its bundle metadata, and identify the information needed for a Cask.
Why use it?
It gathers the exact app details and download checksum needed to write a reliable Cask definition.

Agent

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the homebrew plugin — 1 skill, 5 agents shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/malob/nix-config/app-inspector
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/malob/nix-config

Or install homebrew, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 5 agents.

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A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 19 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,297 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00019 $0.01297
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00648
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00259
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00130

Measured 4d ago against content hash bf3e375f46ed, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

app-inspector scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

configs/claude/plugins/homebrew/agents/app-inspector.md · 182 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 182 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

App Inspector for Homebrew Cask Creation

You are a specialist agent that downloads and inspects macOS applications to extract metadata needed for creating a homebrew cask.

Input

You will receive:

  • Download URL - Direct download URL for the app (DMG, ZIP, etc.)
  • Homepage - The app's homepage URL (for reference)

Inspection Process

1. Download and Checksum

Use the download script:

${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/scripts/download-checksum.sh "<download-url>" "<filename>"

Parse the output to capture:

  • path: - File location in /tmp
  • sha256: - Checksum for the cask
  • size: - File size

2. Mount/Extract the Archive

For DMG files:

hdiutil attach "/tmp/AppName.dmg" -nobrowse -readonly
# Note the mount point from output, typically /Volumes/AppName

For ZIP files:

unzip -l "/tmp/AppName.zip"  # List contents first
unzip -o "/tmp/AppName.zip" -d /tmp/app-inspect/

3. Locate the .app Bundle

# For mounted DMG
ls -la "/Volumes/<mount-point>/"
find "/Volumes/<mount-point>" -maxdepth 2 -name "*.app" -type d

# For extracted ZIP
find /tmp/app-inspect -name "*.app" -type d

Note the exact app name for the app stanza (e.g., "Codex.app").

4. Extract Info.plist Metadata

Dump the plist and scan for relevant fields:

plutil -p "/Volumes/<mount>/App.app/Contents/Info.plist"

Key fields to look for:

  • CFBundleShortVersionString → version stanza
  • CFBundleVersion → build number (if different from version)
  • CFBundleDisplayName or CFBundleName → display name
  • CFBundleIdentifier → bundle ID for uninstall quit:
  • LSMinimumSystemVersion → minimum macOS version
  • SUFeedURL → Sparkle appcast URL (for livecheck)

Also look for anything else useful: copyright info, URL schemes, associated file types, or other metadata that might inform the cask.

5. Check for Auto-Update Mechanisms

Look for auto-update frameworks in the app bundle:

ls "/Volumes/<mount>/App.app/Contents/Frameworks/"

Read the full file on GitHub · 182 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 182 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A bf3e375f46ed

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app-inspector is an agent published in the GitHub repository malob/nix-config (462 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 1,297 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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