What is Applite CLAUDE.md?

A project guide for Claude Code, an AI coding assistant, describing how the Applite macOS app is organised and run.

Use it when asking Claude Code to change, build, or debug Applite. It covers SwiftUI, Xcode, dependencies, the SQLite database, and the build process.

It gives the assistant the project context needed to work consistently, reducing guesswork about the app’s structure, tools, and data flow.

How milanvarady/Applite configures Claude Code

About the project

Applite is a native macOS app that installs and manages software distributed as Homebrew Casks, including on a fresh Mac without requiring Terminal or preinstalled Homebrew. It is for Mac users who want an app-store-style interface for browsing, searching, categorizing, importing, and exporting their installed applications. The catalogue entries provide instructions for using Applite-related workflows.

milanvarady/Applite · 7,123 stars · on GitHub · applite.app

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to milanvarady/Applite. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/milanvarady/Applite/main/CLAUDE.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/milanvarady/Applite

Made for: Claude Code.

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README.md

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Per session 2,572 This file is loaded in full into every session.

When invoked 2,572 The same file — it is already loaded in full.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.02572	$0.02572
Opus 5.5	$0.01029	$0.01029
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00514	$0.00514
Haiku 4.5	$0.00257	$0.00257

Measured 2mo ago against content hash f0b5a786d151, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Applite CLAUDE.md 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 2mo 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.

CLAUDE.md · 103 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 103 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

Project Overview

Applite is a native macOS GUI application for Homebrew Casks, designed as an "app store for third-party apps" rather than a full Homebrew wrapper. Target audience is non-technical users who want simple app installation/management.

Language: Swift with SwiftUI (@Observable, @MainActor, async/await)
Platform: macOS 14+ (Apple Silicon and Intel)
Build System: Xcode with Swift Package Manager for dependencies. Uses Xcode 16+ file-system synchronized groups (folder-based project): the on-disk folder structure is the project structure. Adding, removing, moving, or renaming source files needs no project.pbxproj edits — just change the files on disk and Xcode picks them up automatically. Do not hand-edit the pbxproj for file management.
Database: GRDB.swift (SQLite) at ~/Library/Application Support/Applite/casks.sqlite

Build & Run

Open Applite.xcodeproj in Xcode and build/run (⌘R). Dependencies resolve automatically via SPM.

Architecture

Data Flow

App Launch: ContentView.task(id: bootstrap.attempt) calls caskManager.bootstrapAndLoad()
First Run: HomebrewBootstrap installs/validates brew; while bootstrap.needsSetupOverlay is true, ContentView covers the window with the non-dismissable ComponentsInstallView modal (Features/Bootstrap/). There is no separate onboarding flow — the app opens straight into the main UI
Main UI: ContentView with NavigationSplitView sidebar navigation
Data Loading: CaskManager.loadData() runs in two stages — catalog (DB-only, instant) then brew CLI state (slow). The UI lights up after stage 1; installed/outdated state arrives reactively as stage 2 completes.

Key Components

The shared cask/brew engine lives under Applite/Core/, split into focused subfolders:

Persistence (Applite/Core/Database/)

AppDatabase - Schema migrations, DatabasePool with WAL mode, FTS5 virtual table on casks
CaskRecord - GRDB FetchableRecord/PersistableRecord, decodes from CaskDTO
CaskDatabaseService - CRUD, FTS5 search (async), API sync

Read the full file on GitHub · 103 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.

2mo ago First seen · 103 lines · 2,572 tokens per session scan A f0b5a786d151

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Applite CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository milanvarady/Applite (7,123 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 2,572 tokens to every session, about $0.0103 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.

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