macos-sandbox

macos-sandbox is a command for Claude Code from robzilla1738/roberts-skills. It costs 22 tokens per session (135 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command for testing a macOS app or installer in a disposable Tart virtual machine, an isolated software computer.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to upload and launch .app or .pkg files, drive tests inside the virtual machine, and collect logs, screenshots, and crash reports.
Why use it?
It checks whether a build launches and records useful evidence without relying on the main Mac’s state.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} variable.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the macos-sandbox plugin — 1 skill, 1 command shipped together

Good fit Use it to upload and launch .app or .pkg files, drive tests inside the virtual machine, and collect logs, screenshots, and crash reports.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add robzilla1738/roberts-skills
Claude Code
/plugin install macos-sandbox

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install macos-sandbox, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 command.

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Per session 22 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 135 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00022 $0.00135
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00068
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00027
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00014

Measured 8d ago against content hash aa42b14bc74e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

macos-sandbox 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 8d 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.

plugins/macos-sandbox/commands/macos-sandbox.md · 12 lines

What it actually says

Smoke-test in a sandbox VM: $ARGUMENTS

Load and follow the macos-sandbox skill at ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/macos-sandbox/SKILL.md: use the macbox CLI or MCP to upload the build to a disposable Tart VM, launch it, and collect logs, screenshots, and crash reports; drive guest automation as needed; report what happened.

If $ARGUMENTS is empty, ask for the path to the .app/.pkg to test.

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. 8d ago First seen · 12 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A aa42b14bc74e

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macos-sandbox is a command published in the GitHub repository robzilla1738/roberts-skills (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 135 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.