macos-storage-management

macos-storage-management is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AtlasOmnia/donna-starter. It costs 22 tokens per session (3,351 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A safety guide for freeing space on a Mac and moving or archiving files, including files managed by iCloud or other cloud-storage services.

In plain words
What is it for?
Measuring real local storage, moving Desktop or Documents folders to an external drive, archiving cloud folders, checking copy results, and deciding when source files can be safely removed.
Why use it?
Mac storage numbers can be misleading when cloud files appear locally but are not actually stored on the disk. Different filesystems, such as APFS and ExFAT, also preserve different Mac file details.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Measuring real local storage, moving Desktop or Documents folders to an external drive, archiving cloud folders, checking copy results, and deciding when source files can be safely removed.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/atlasomnia/donna-starter/macos-storage-management
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 AtlasOmnia/donna-starter --skill macos-storage-management
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AtlasOmnia/donna-starter

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,351 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.03351
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.01675
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00670
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00335

Measured 10d ago against content hash 20aaa47f6f53, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

macos-storage-management 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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/archive-resident-files.py, scripts/cleanup-inactive-caches.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/apple/macos-storage-management/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.

macOS Storage Management

Safely reclaim local Mac storage without mistaking cloud placeholders for resident data, losing File Provider content, or flattening metadata onto an incompatible external filesystem.

Trigger

Load this skill when the user asks to free space on a Mac, move Documents/Desktop/Downloads to an external SSD, archive iCloud/File Provider folders, migrate between APFS and ExFAT, or explain conflicting Finder, du, and df storage figures.

Safety Principles

  1. Measure the live Data volume, not only /. On modern macOS, use df -h "$HOME" because /System/Volumes/Data carries user data.
  2. Inspect the destination filesystem before choosing a copy method. ExFAT does not preserve native macOS symlinks, ownership, permissions, extended attributes, resource forks, or every filename semantic.
  3. Treat File Provider folders specially. A logical file can be dataless with zero allocated blocks. Its apparent size is not reclaimable local space until downloaded.
  4. Never delete on a partial copy. Copy/archive, independently verify, re-check source identity/state, then remove only verified source objects.
  5. Do not force cloud hydration onto a critically full disk. If placeholders materially exceed free space, move only resident files or free space elsewhere first.
  6. Report actual reclaimed capacity. Compare df before/after; do not equate logical file size with local blocks released.

Diagnosing an oversized “System Data” category

Treat the Storage Settings number as a classification clue, not a filesystem path. Before recommending cleanup:

  1. Compare the sealed System volume with the writable Data volume using diskutil apfs list and df -h "$HOME".
  2. Check both Time Machine and APFS snapshots; do not assume snapshots are responsible.
  3. Rank $HOME, ~/Library, /private/var, /Library, and hidden application roots with allocated-block measurements.
  4. Drill into app containers, group containers, caches, developer runtimes, cloud storage, and /private/var/folders.
  5. Inspect large files stored directly at a root such as ~/.hermes; directory-only rankings can hide backup multiplication.
  6. Separate rebuildable caches/temp data from app-managed stores and live databases before proposing deletion.

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. 10d ago First seen · 192 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 20aaa47f6f53

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macos-storage-management is a skill published in the GitHub repository AtlasOmnia/donna-starter (110 stars, last pushed 10d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 3,351 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 2026-08-30.

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