mac-app-uninstall

mac-app-uninstall is a skill for Claude Code from lifedever/skills-plugin. It costs 360 tokens per session (3,194 once invoked), scanned D, original, MIT.

A macOS application uninstaller that finds an app and the leftover files it created, then moves them to the Trash. It first inventories installed apps and requires confirmation before removal.

In plain words
What is it for?
Listing installed applications, scanning for leftovers, previewing a removal, uninstalling an app to the Trash, and verifying the result.
Why use it?
It helps remove an app and related files without permanently deleting anything, while making the proposed changes visible and reviewable.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: ${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR} variable.

Part of the lifedever plugin — 15 skills shipped together

Good fit Listing installed applications, scanning for leftovers, previewing a removal, uninstalling an app to the Trash, and verifying the result.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lifedever/skills-plugin/mac-app-uninstall
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 lifedever/skills-plugin --skill mac-app-uninstall
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lifedever/skills-plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install lifedever, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 15 skills.

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 mac-app-uninstall

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lifedever/skills-plugin/mac-app-uninstall.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/lifedever/skills-plugin/mac-app-uninstall)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/lifedever/skills-plugin/mac-app-uninstall"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/lifedever/skills-plugin/mac-app-uninstall.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 360 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,194 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan D 2 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00360 $0.03194
Opus 5 $0.00180 $0.01597
Sonnet 5 $0.00072 $0.00639
Haiku 4.5 $0.00036 $0.00319

Measured 7d ago against content hash c7dca04dfb1d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade D, and why

mac-app-uninstall scanned grade D with 2 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 7d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 4 executable files (lib.sh, list-apps.sh, scan.sh, …), 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.

Asks for rootmediumPrivilege escalation

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

description: Browse installed macOS applications and uninstall any of them together with every leftover they left behind — a scriptable replacement for AppCleaner / CleanMyMac. Also use this to simply LIST what is instal

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

sudo rm -rf /Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/<label>
skills/mac-app-uninstall/SKILL.md · 231 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 231 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

mac-app-uninstall

Removes a macOS app and its leftovers, the way AppCleaner does — but with the reasoning visible and auditable at every step.

The bottom line: everything goes to the Trash, so any mistake can be undone. There is no permanent-delete path in this skill, by design. Never work around that with your own rm.

Iron rule: identify → scan → show the report → confirm → dry run → execute → verify.

Division of labour

You do the judgement, the scripts do the enforcement:

You (the agent) The scripts
Work out which app the user means — ask, never guess Inventory installed apps and enumerate leftovers
Optionally hunt for extra leftovers by name (step 4) Decide ownership when apps nest in each other's namespaces
Explain, summarise, get consent Enforce the path allow-list, Apple/Setapp protection, Trash-only

scan.sh deliberately does no fuzzy matching — it takes an exact bundle id, exact app name, or a path. Guessing is your job, because you can ask a clarifying question and it cannot.

Where output goes

Everything lands under ~/Downloads/mac-app-uninstall/:

apps-<ts>.md              the installed-app inventory
<App>-<ts>/report.md      scan report for one app
<App>-<ts>/manifest.tsv   what uninstall.sh acts on
<App>-<ts>/result.md      what was trashed + verification

One folder per uninstall, so a run's report, manifest and result stay together.

The generated files are written in Chinese and open automatically in Typora (falling back to the system default). Set MAU_NO_OPEN=1 or pass --no-open to suppress opening — do that when running several scans in a row, so the user isn't buried in windows.

0. Pre-flight

/usr/bin/trash ships with macOS 14+. The scripts are pure base-system bash; nothing to install.

mole is optional — mo uninstall --list gives a JSON app inventory with a Homebrew/Setapp/App source field. Never use mo uninstall to remove anything: with an app argument it doesn't list what it will delete and it blocks on a [y/N] prompt, so there is nothing to audit.

Read the full file on GitHub · 231 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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. 7d ago First seen · 231 lines · 360 tokens per session scan D c7dca04dfb1d

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mac-app-uninstall is a skill published in the GitHub repository lifedever/skills-plugin (11 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 360 tokens to every session and 3,194 once invoked, about $0.0018 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 2 findings (asks for root, recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.