macos-tcc-sigkill-missing-usage-description

macos-tcc-sigkill-missing-usage-description is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from divinevideo/divine-mobile. It costs 236 tokens per session (2,218 once invoked), scanned A, original, MPL-2.0.

A macOS troubleshooting guide for apps that are immediately killed when they access privacy-protected data or devices. macOS requires a matching usage description in the app's Info.plist before allowing access.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to fix Flutter or native macOS apps that access Photos, Contacts, location, the microphone, camera, screen recording, or other protected resources.
Why use it?
It identifies the cause of EXC_CRASH or SIGKILL reports marked by macOS privacy enforcement, where the app receives no permission prompt or recoverable error.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions Claude Code; installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to fix Flutter or native macOS apps that access Photos, Contacts, location, the microphone, camera, screen recording, or other protected resources.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/divinevideo/divine-mobile/macos-tcc-sigkill-missing-usage-description
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 divinevideo/divine-mobile --skill macos-tcc-sigkill-missing-usage-description
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/divinevideo/divine-mobile

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 236 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,218 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 warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 15 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 85
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 5
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 21
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 30
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 48
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 50
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 83
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 84
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 85
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 89
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 98
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 122
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 125
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 161
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 180
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
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 $0.00236 $0.02218
Opus 5 $0.00118 $0.01109
Sonnet 5 $0.00047 $0.00444
Haiku 4.5 $0.00024 $0.00222

Measured 5d ago against content hash c671bb8826ab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

macos-tcc-sigkill-missing-usage-description 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 5d 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.

.agents/skills/macos-tcc-sigkill-missing-usage-description/SKILL.md · 182 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 182 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

macOS TCC SIGKILL: Missing Info.plist Usage Description

Problem

A macOS app crashes with EXC_CRASH (SIGKILL) the instant it calls a privacy-protected API. There is no chance to handle the error, no permission prompt, no deny response — just immediate process termination by the OS.

The crash is caused by macOS TCC enforcement: if your app links against or calls an API that accesses a privacy-protected resource and your Info.plist does NOT contain the matching usage-description key, the OS kills the process for privacy violation.

Context / Trigger Conditions

Crash report (~/Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports/<App>-*.ips) has all of these:

  • "exception": { "type": "EXC_CRASH", "signal": "SIGKILL" }
  • "termination": { "namespace": "TCC", ... }
  • Termination details string contains: "This app has crashed because it attempted to access privacy-sensitive data without a usage description"
  • The crashed thread stack includes TCC.__TCC_CRASHING_DUE_TO_PRIVACY_VIOLATION__
  • Frames below that are usually TCC.__TCCAccessRequest_block_invoke, libxpc.dylib._xpc_connection_reply_callout, dispatch queue machinery

The termination details string tells you exactly which key is missing — read it.

The Info.plist Key Map

Resource Info.plist key Entitlement (sandboxed apps)
Camera NSCameraUsageDescription com.apple.security.device.camera
Microphone NSMicrophoneUsageDescription com.apple.security.device.audio-input
Photos (read/write) NSPhotoLibraryUsageDescription com.apple.security.personal-information.photos-library
Photos (add-only) NSPhotoLibraryAddUsageDescription com.apple.security.photos.library.add-only
Contacts NSContactsUsageDescription com.apple.security.personal-information.addressbook
Calendar NSCalendarsUsageDescription com.apple.security.personal-information.calendars
Reminders NSRemindersUsageDescription com.apple.security.personal-information.reminders
Location NSLocationUsageDescription (+ WhenInUse / Always variants) com.apple.security.personal-information.location
Speech recognition NSSpeechRecognitionUsageDescription
Desktop folder NSDesktopFolderUsageDescription com.apple.security.files.user-selected.read-only etc.
Documents folder NSDocumentsFolderUsageDescription
Downloads folder NSDownloadsFolderUsageDescription com.apple.security.files.downloads.read-write

Read the full file on GitHub · 182 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. 5d ago First seen · 182 lines · 236 tokens per session scan A c671bb8826ab

Subscribe to this mod's changes

macos-tcc-sigkill-missing-usage-description is a skill published in the GitHub repository divinevideo/divine-mobile (265 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MPL-2.0. It adds 236 tokens to every session and 2,218 once invoked, about $0.0012 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 2026-09-03.

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