A macOS Finder tag helper for viewing and changing file labels, finding tagged files, linking files with a shared tag, and creating Smart Folders. Tags are colored labels stored with files.

For listing, adding, replacing, removing, or clearing tags; finding files by tag; linking related files; and generating tag-based Smart Folders.

It gathers common tag operations into one command, including searches that require all or any of several tags.

tag — Command by esaruoho

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/tag

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/esaruoho/apple

Per session 66 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 590 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00066	$0.00590
Opus 5	$0.00033	$0.00295
Sonnet 5	$0.00013	$0.00118
Haiku 4.5	$0.00007	$0.00059

Measured 2d ago against content hash 99df4f9cdd5c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tag 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/tag.md · 41 lines

What it actually says

Run the apple-skill tag (or tag-smart) wrapper on $ARGUMENTS.

If $ARGUMENTS starts with smart, dispatch to bin/tag-smart with the rest; otherwise dispatch to bin/tag.

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

case "$ARGUMENTS" in
  smart\ *) /Users/esaruoho/work/apple/bin/tag-smart ${ARGUMENTS#smart } ;;
  smart)    /Users/esaruoho/work/apple/bin/tag-smart ;;
  *)        /Users/esaruoho/work/apple/bin/tag $ARGUMENTS ;;
esac

Subcommands (via bin/tag):

list <file>... — show tags
add <spec>[,<spec>...] <file>... — add (preserves existing). <spec> is Name or Name:color
set <spec>[,<spec>...] <file>... — replace
remove <name>[,<name>...] <file>... — drop named tags
clear <file>... — strip all tags
find <name> [--scope <dir>] — files carrying this tag
find-all <name>[,<name>] [--scope <dir>] — AND match
find-any <name>[,<name>] [--scope <dir>] — OR match
link [--name N] [--color C] <file> <file>... — stamp a shared tag across files (bind a conversation-md ↔ the app it spawned ↔ the skill it knowledge-bases)
rename <old> <new> — rename a Finder user-tag globally
colors — list the 7 color names + codes

Smart Folder (via bin/tag-smart):

/tag smart <name> <tag>[,<tag>...] [--scope <dir>] [--any] — write a .savedSearch under ~/Library/Saved Searches/ and open it
/tag smart --tmp <tag>[,<tag>...] [--scope <dir>] [--any] — throwaway in /tmp

After the command completes, report only the lines it printed. Do not summarize.

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.

2d ago First seen · 41 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 99df4f9cdd5c

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tag is a command published in the GitHub repository esaruoho/apple (11 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 590 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

tag

Getting it into your agent

What it costs to keep this loaded

Grade A, and why

Nothing flagged

What it actually says

What this file has done since we first saw it

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