mac-cleanup-memory

mac-cleanup-memory is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from lifedever/skills-plugin. It costs 207 tokens per session (2,413 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A diagnostic tool that reports how macOS is using memory, including free memory, active memory, compressed memory, swap, pressure, and the largest memory users. It does not kill processes or change the system.

In plain words
What is it for?
Investigating RAM usage, spotting high-memory applications or processes, reviewing swap trends, and identifying reclaimable inactive memory.
Why use it?
It replaces guesswork about slowdowns or memory pressure with a recorded snapshot and objective observations.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the lifedever plugin — 15 skills shipped together

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/lifedever/skills-plugin/mac-cleanup-memory
Any agent
npx skills add lifedever/skills-plugin --skill mac-cleanup-memory
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lifedever/skills-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 207 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,413 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00207 $0.02413
Opus 5 $0.00103 $0.01207
Sonnet 5 $0.00041 $0.00483
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00241

Measured 5d ago against content hash e091b1364f22, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

mac-cleanup-memory 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 5d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (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.

| "run purge" / "执行 purge" | Run `sudo purge` (user enters their own password) |
skills/mac-cleanup-memory/SKILL.md · 195 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 195 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

mac-cleanup-memory

A skill for diagnosing macOS memory state — diagnostic-only mode. Never proactively kills any process.

Execution Flow After Trigger

Step 1: Run the scan script

bash "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR}/scan.sh"

The script:

  • Prints a full Markdown report to stdout
  • Tees it to ~/Downloads/mac-cleanup-memory-<timestamp>.md
  • Exits 0 on success, 1 on failure with diagnostics written to stderr

Step 2: Present the report

Paste the stdout Markdown content to the user verbatim. You may add one or two observations at the end pointing out the most notable items, but:

  • Never modify / fabricate / omit any numbers in the report (RSS, PID, pressure level)
  • Never add candidates from your own ps aux | grep that the script didn't surface
  • Never add "I suggest killing X" to the report — that's the user's call

Step 3: Wait for user instruction

User reply Action
No reply / "ok" / "got it" Do nothing
kill <PID> or kill <PID1> <PID2> Follow the [Kill Safety Protocol], one PID at a time
"run purge" / "执行 purge" Run sudo purge (user enters their own password)
"kill all WeChat" / "把微信全杀了" Must list every PID + command for confirmation first — never use pkill/killall directly
"clean up everything" / vague instruction Ask back: "Which specific PIDs?"

🛡️ Kill Safety Protocol (core, bolded)

For each kill, walk through all the steps one PID at a time. If any step fails, abort that PID (other PIDs are unaffected).

0. Active session strong protection (highest priority, added 2026-05-13)

Each process in the scan.sh report carries a status tag:

  • 🟢 IDE — IDE/editor associated (VSCode/Cursor/JetBrains/Xcode/Sublime child process, or path contains vscode/extensions/anthropic.claude-code)
  • 🟢 TTY — has a controlling terminal (the user is watching it in a terminal tab)
  • 🟡 new — etime < 30 minutes
  • 🔴 orphan — true zombie (CLI child class with PPID=1)
  • — — normal

Read the full file on GitHub · 195 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 5d ago First seen · 195 lines · 207 tokens per session scan B e091b1364f22

Subscribe to this mod's changes

mac-cleanup-memory is a skill published in the GitHub repository lifedever/skills-plugin (11 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 207 tokens to every session and 2,413 once invoked, about $0.0010 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-30.

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