checkup

checkup is a command for coding agents from xiaolai/mac-it-guy-pro. It costs 23 tokens per session (1,470 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Mac health report covering storage, memory and processor use, startup items, software updates, backups, and battery or other hardware.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing overall Mac health, comparing findings with an earlier watch list, and choosing one recommended next step.
Why use it?
It gathers these checks in one plain-language report so you can spot problems without changing the computer.

Command

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the mac-it-guy-pro plugin — 8 skills, 12 commands, 4 agents, 2 hooks shipped together

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/xiaolai/mac-it-guy-pro/checkup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xiaolai/mac-it-guy-pro

Or install mac-it-guy-pro, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 8 skills, 12 commands, 4 agents, 2 hooks.

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 checkup

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/xiaolai/mac-it-guy-pro/checkup.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/xiaolai/mac-it-guy-pro/checkup)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/commands/xiaolai/mac-it-guy-pro/checkup"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/xiaolai/mac-it-guy-pro/checkup.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 23 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,470 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 $0.00023 $0.01470
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00735
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00294
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00147

Measured 3d ago against content hash bedfc255f58a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

checkup 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/checkup.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Checkup — the regular health visit

Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/it-core/SKILL.md first — the safety contract and report format are binding. Read ~/ITGuy/machine.md if it exists (compare today's findings against its Watch List). If uname is not Darwin, say this version supports Mac only and stop.

This command changes nothing about the user's system — it diagnoses and recommends only. It does write its own bookkeeping: the visit log, the machine profile, and a declined pattern id if an automation offer is turned down. Those writes are required, not exceptions to skip.

Step 1: Gather evidence

Dispatch the mac-it-guy-pro:diagnostician agent (via Task) for all six areas: disk, memory & CPU, startup, updates, backups, hardware.

Step 2: Render the report

Use the it-core report format exactly: plain-language top line with the overall verdict, findings table (Area | Status | What I found | What I suggest, with 🟢🟡🔴), then exactly one recommended next step phrased as an offer — the highest-impact 🔴 item, or the top 🟡 if nothing is red.

Rules:

  • Every startup item is named in plain language ("Google's software updater"), never just its plist filename.
  • Backup findings distinguish "no backup configured" (🔴) from "backup disk not connected today" (🟡).
  • A diagnostic that could not run appears as 🟡 "couldn't check" with the one-sentence reason — never silently dropped.

Step 2b: One automation offer — only when the machine has earned it

Read ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/toolbox-contract/SKILL.md and then its references/pattern-catalogue.md — the catalogue's rules refer to the declined array, the pattern field, and the registry schema, all of which are defined in the parent skill, so loading the reference alone leaves those terms undefined. Run its signals. Its rules are binding, and three of them decide whether you say anything at all:

  • Skip this step entirely if any 🔴 finding is open. A full disk or a missing backup outranks any convenience, and raising both at once buries the one that matters.
  • Skip any pattern already in declined or already built in ~/ITGuy/toolbox.json.
  • At most one offer, the highest count among those that fired, appended as a single line below the recommended next step — never a list, never a second section.

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 lines

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 · 77 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A bedfc255f58a

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checkup is a command published in the GitHub repository xiaolai/mac-it-guy-pro (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 1,470 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.