delete-now

A macOS command that builds and opens a Finder Quick Action named “Delete Immediately,” which deletes selected files or folders without sending them to the Trash.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to add a permanent-delete option to Finder’s right-click Quick Actions.
Why use it?
It removes the extra step of emptying the Trash when you already know an item should be deleted permanently.

Command

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 commands/esaruoho/apple/delete-now
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/esaruoho/apple
Per session 44 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 178 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 $0.00044 $0.00178
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00089
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00036
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00018

Measured 2d ago against content hash 41aa5adfd694, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

delete-now 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 2d 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.

commands/delete-now.md · 17 lines

What it actually says

Build the signed .shortcut and open it so Shortcuts.app imports it.

Use Bash (one call, then stop):

/Users/esaruoho/work/apple/bin/build-delete-now-shortcut.py && open '/Users/esaruoho/work/apple/shortcuts/finder/Delete Immediately.shortcut'

After import, tell the user (one line):

  • In Shortcuts.app, open Delete Immediately → ⓘ → ✅ Use as Quick Action → Finder, then right-click any file/folder in Finder → Quick Actions → Delete Immediately.
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. 2d ago First seen · 17 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 41aa5adfd694

Subscribe to this mod's changes

delete-now is a command published in the GitHub repository esaruoho/apple (11 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 178 once invoked, about $0.0002 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.