plist-probe

plist-probe is a command for coding agents from esaruoho/apple. It costs 0 tokens per session (147 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A scanner for Apple application property-list files, which are macOS configuration and saved-data files. It checks 1,934 files across 518 apps for user data that might be exportable.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to survey Apple app data and identify apps worth exporting from, with optional Markdown or interesting-results filters.
Why use it?
It helps you find which Apple apps actually store useful data in these files instead of checking them manually.

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

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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.

agentmods badge for plist-probe

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 147 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 $0.00000 $0.00147
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00073
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00029
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00015

Measured 3d ago against content hash a97bc421b4e6, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plist-probe 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/plist-probe.md · 16 lines

What it actually says

Survey every Apple-app plist on disk and report which apps actually persist user data worth exporting.

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

/Users/esaruoho/work/apple/bin/app-plist-probe.py $ARGUMENTS

After the command completes, report the top mineable apps verbatim. No editorializing.

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 · 16 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A a97bc421b4e6

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plist-probe is a command published in the GitHub repository esaruoho/apple (12 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 147 tokens. 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.