background-services-auditor

background-services-auditor is an agent for Claude Code from skalinets/mac_optimizer. It costs 59 tokens per session (553 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A background-software auditor for launch agents, system services, login items, menu bar apps, VPNs, and sync clients. It judges which always-running programs are worth disabling or removing for battery life.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review background services and decide which ones may be disabled to reduce battery drain.
Why use it?
It helps find software that runs continuously even when you are not actively using it. It also considers what each program is for before recommending a change.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to review background services and decide which ones may be disabled to reduce battery drain.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/skalinets/mac_optimizer/background-services-auditor
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/skalinets/mac_optimizer

Made for: Claude Code.

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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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Your own site
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Per session 59 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 553 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 5.1 $0.00059 $0.00553
Opus 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00221
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00012 $0.00111
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00055

Measured 2mo ago against content hash dc5b0cef84e1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

background-services-auditor scanned grade A with 1 finding 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 2mo 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.

Asks for rootlowPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

sudo launchctl bootout system /Library/LaunchDaemons/<file>.plist

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

agents/background-services-auditor.md · 45 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 2mo ago First seen · 45 lines · 59 tokens per session scan A dc5b0cef84e1

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background-services-auditor is an agent published in the GitHub repository skalinets/mac_optimizer (11 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 59 tokens to every session and 553 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-04.

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