troubleshoot-tcc

troubleshoot-tcc is a skill for Claude Code from PsychQuant/che-ical-mcp. It costs 119 tokens per session (3,633 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A troubleshooting guide for macOS permissions that control access to Calendar and Reminders.

In plain words
What is it for?
It explains how to check and repair both permission layers for CheICalMCP, Claude Code, and other host applications.
Why use it?
It helps diagnose cases where calendar tools fail silently, show permission errors, or stop working after an update because macOS may require permission for both the helper program and the app that launched it.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the che-ical-mcp plugin — 3 skills, 5 commands, 2 hooks shipped together

Good fit It explains how to check and repair both permission layers for CheICalMCP, Claude Code, and other host applications.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/psychquant/che-ical-mcp/troubleshoot-tcc
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 PsychQuant/che-ical-mcp --skill troubleshoot-tcc
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PsychQuant/che-ical-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install che-ical-mcp, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 5 commands, 2 hooks.

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Per session 119 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,633 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 $0.00119 $0.03633
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.01817
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00727
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00363

Measured 12d ago against content hash f306fd3a9051, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

troubleshoot-tcc 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 12d 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.

plugin/skills/troubleshoot-tcc/SKILL.md · 213 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 213 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Troubleshoot TCC permissions for che-ical-mcp

This skill is the first thing to try when calendar / reminder tools fail. Most "calendar tools don't work" reports are TCC (Transparency, Consent & Control) state issues rather than code bugs.

The two-layer authorization model (read this first, #168)

macOS TCC may attribute a Calendar/Reminders access check to the responsible process — the host app that (transitively) spawned the binary — not only to the binary itself. Two independent layers can therefore appear in System Settings → Privacy & Security → Calendar / Reminders:

Layer Entry looks like When it exists
Binary layer — CheICalMCP's own grant CheICalMCP with a green exec icon Created by --setup dialogs or Claude Desktop's first prompt
Host layer — the responsible process Depends on host, see table below Created when a TCC check is attributed to the host context

Host-layer entry names:

Host Host-layer entry in System Settings Notes
Claude Code (CLI) A bare version-number string, e.g. 2.1.202, with a question-mark document icon That IS the Claude Code native binary — the real executable lives at ~/.local/share/claude/versions/<version> (~/.local/bin/claude is a symlink to it), and TCC displays a path-keyed client by its filename. ⚠️ The path rotates on every Claude Code update, so this grant can silently go stale (#170)
Terminal.app / iTerm2 / VS Code The app's own name Applies when you run the binary (or claude) from that app's shell
Claude Desktop (no host entry needed) Desktop spawns .mcpb servers via /Applications/Claude.app/Contents/Helpers/disclaimer, which makes the child its own responsible process — the .mcpb CheICalMCP entry is self-contained. (The disclaimer shim exec-replaces itself, so it usually won't show up in a live ps ancestry trace — identify Desktop context by the absence of a claude/versions/… ancestor, not by finding the disclaimer.)

Read the full file on GitHub · 213 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. 12d ago First seen · 213 lines · 119 tokens per session scan A f306fd3a9051

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troubleshoot-tcc is a skill published in the GitHub repository PsychQuant/che-ical-mcp (35 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 119 tokens to every session and 3,633 once invoked, about $0.0006 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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