grant-perms

grant-perms is a command for coding agents from esaruoho/apple. It costs 96 tokens per session (337 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A macOS command that opens all AppleToolbox privacy-permission prompts together. It covers permissions such as microphone, camera, screen recording, contacts, and file access.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before using AppleToolbox features that need macOS privacy permissions.
Why use it?
It gathers the interruptions at one planned moment instead of asking for them later during use. macOS still requires you to approve each prompt, and Full Disk Access must be enabled separately in System Settings.

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/grant-perms
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/esaruoho/apple

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README.md
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Per session 96 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 337 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 $0.00096 $0.00337
Opus 5 $0.00048 $0.00169
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00067
Haiku 4.5 $0.00010 $0.00034

Measured 3d ago against content hash 455f6fbe341e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

grant-perms 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 3d 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/grant-perms.md · 25 lines

What it actually says

Trigger the AppleToolbox permission burst. macOS TCC is user-mediated by design — no API or signing trick can grant Accessibility / FDA / Screen Recording silently — so this just queues every dialog at once instead of ambushing you later. Click through each one; AppleToolbox won't ask again.

Use Bash to execute (one call, then stop):

"$(mdfind "kMDItemCFBundleIdentifier == 'com.esaruoho.appletoolbox'" | head -1)/Contents/MacOS/AppleToolbox" --grant-permissions

(Resolves the installed app by bundle id — the old ~/work/apple/topbar/AppleToolbox.app path is deleted by build.sh every build. Fallback path: /Applications/AppleToolbox/Apple-Workflows/AppleToolbox.app/Contents/MacOS/AppleToolbox.)

After the command completes, remind the user to also drag AppleToolbox.app into System Settings → Privacy & Security → Full Disk Access (the only one with no programmatic prompt).

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. 3d ago First seen · 25 lines · 96 tokens per session scan A 455f6fbe341e

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grant-perms is a command published in the GitHub repository esaruoho/apple (12 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 96 tokens to every session and 337 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.