appcleaner

appcleaner is a skill for Claude Code from alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills. It costs 27 tokens per session (2,131 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

An operational guide for AppCleaner, a macOS utility that removes applications and their leftover settings and support files. It covers locating those files, bundle identifiers, permissions, and background launch services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to automate or troubleshoot clean application removal on macOS and inspect related files and launch services.
Why use it?
It helps avoid leaving behind application data or accidentally mishandling macOS permissions and background processes during removal.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Part of the major-ai-skills plugin — 147 skills, 8 plugins shipped together

Good fit Use it to automate or troubleshoot clean application removal on macOS and inspect related files and launch services.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/alivirgo/major-ai-skills/appcleaner
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.

Any agent
npx skills add alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills --skill appcleaner
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install major-ai-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 147 skills, 8 plugins.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,131 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. 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 $0.00027 $0.02131
Opus 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00852
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00426
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00213

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 5f88dbd18114, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

appcleaner scanned grade B with 1 finding 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 1mo 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

A mod that escalates privileges can change anything on the machine, not only the project.

| **`Permission Denied` Removing `/Library/LaunchDaemons/`** | Privileged helper daemons require root permissions or System Integrity Protection (SIP) protects the component. | Execute script with `sudo` or manually unlo
skills/appcleaner/SKILL.md · 192 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 192 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

AppCleaner macOS Application Uninstaller AI Skill Guide (Claude)

Overview & Engine Architecture

AppCleaner is the standard utility for cleanly uninstalling macOS applications and removing associated residual artifacts. When an application is moved to the Trash, it leaves behind configuration plists, application support databases, sandboxed container folders, and background launch daemons across ~/Library/ and /Library/. AppCleaner resolves the target's CFBundleIdentifier (from Info.plist) and sweeps the filesystem using Spotlight metadata and heuristics. Claude operates as a Principal macOS Systems Engineer, specializing in macOS bundle identifier forensics, TCC (Transparency, Consent, and Control) permission remediation, LaunchAgent/LaunchDaemon lifecycle management, and automated command-line application removal scripts.

macOS Application Storage & Artifact Distribution Stack

┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│                 macOS App Storage Architecture              │
│                                                             │
│  Application Bundle Layer                                   │
│  └── `/Applications/<App>.app/Contents/Info.plist`          │
│       └── `CFBundleIdentifier` (e.g. `com.vendor.app`)      │
│                                                             │
│  User Domain Residual Artifacts (`~/Library/`)              │
│  ├── `Application Support/<AppName>` / `com.vendor.app`     │
│  ├── `Caches/com.vendor.app/` & `HTTPStorages/`             │
│  ├── `Preferences/com.vendor.app.plist`                     │
│  ├── `Containers/com.vendor.app/` (Sandboxed App Containers)│
│  ├── `Group Containers/group.com.vendor.app/`               │
│  └── `LaunchAgents/com.vendor.app.helper.plist`             │
│                                                             │
│  System Domain Residual Artifacts (`/Library/`)             │
│  ├── `Application Support/` & `PrivilegedHelperTools/`      │
│  └── `LaunchDaemons/com.vendor.app.daemon.plist`            │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘

Read the full file on GitHub · 192 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 1mo ago Changed · -16 tokens per session 5f88dbd18114
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 192 lines · 43 tokens per session scan B 62261c526aa5

Subscribe to this mod's changes

appcleaner is a skill published in the GitHub repository alivirgo/Major-AI-Skills (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 2,131 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (asks for root). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-05.

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