troubleshoot-tcc

troubleshoot-tcc is a skill for Claude Code from PsychQuant/che-ical-mcp. It costs 119 tokens per session (4,592 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 4,592 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 $0.04592
Opus 5.5 $0.00048 $0.01837
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00024 $0.00918
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00459

Measured yesterday against content hash f7a7f2f8f644, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 yesterday.

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 · 225 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 225 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.

v1.22.0+: under Claude Code, CheICalMCP is its own responsible process (#343) — read this first

  • TCC checks only the responsible process. Measured in #343 with one variable changed: the same ~/bin/CheICalMCP --print-tcc-path read fullAccess when spawned under VS Code, although CheICalMCP's own grant was empty at the time, and notDetermined when spawned disclaimed (CheICalMCP responsible for itself). The host's grant alone decided the first result; CheICalMCP's own grant alone decided the second.
  • From v1.22.0 the binary re-execs in place as its own responsible process only when the process macOS reports as responsible is Claude Code (its native executable under ~/.local/share/claude/versions/<ver>, or ClaudeCode.app): posix_spawn + POSIX_SPAWN_SETEXEC + disclaim, the same call Claude Desktop's disclaimer makes; pid and stdio unchanged. This covers the MCP server, --cli, --print-tcc-path and --setup; --setup also re-execs under any host, because it is the foreground action that creates CheICalMCP's own grant. Under Claude Code only the CheICalMCP entry matters. Every other host (Terminal, VS Code, Ghostty, ssh, cron, CI) keeps the behavior of v1.21.0 and earlier: no re-exec, the host's grant is checked, so the host-layer entry still applies there. Host-layer entries (version numbers, Terminal, VS Code) also apply with CHE_ICAL_MCP_NO_DISCLAIM=1 or on v1.21.0 and earlier.
  • Trade-off: where the re-exec happens, macOS checks CheICalMCP's grant, so once it is allowed, any process Claude Code launches that execs this binary (including --cli) uses it without a separate consent, the same property the Claude Desktop .mcpb has through disclaimer.
  • First run after upgrading (under Claude Code): the CheICalMCP grant may start as notDetermined. Allow the macOS prompt for CheICalMCP, or run ~/bin/CheICalMCP --setup in the foreground, which now prints Authorization target: CheICalMCP (...) before asking. A background Claude Code session without a GUI cannot show the prompt. Only --setup has been seen to show a prompt; whether server mode or --cli shows one is unverified (CI does not cover reading the calendar through the new path).
  • To see which process macOS checks, run --print-tcc-path and read the TCC attribution line. Do not infer it from ps ancestry: under the Claude Code daemon the parent chain does not show it. A spare-claimed session inherits the app that launched the daemon (e.g. VS Code), while a worker the daemon launches through ClaudeCode.app is its own responsible process, and the two chains look alike.

Read the full file on GitHub · 225 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. yesterday Changed · +12 lines f7a7f2f8f644
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 213 lines · 119 tokens per session scan A f306fd3a9051

Subscribe to this mod's changes

troubleshoot-tcc is a skill published in the GitHub repository PsychQuant/che-ical-mcp (41 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 119 tokens to every session and 4,592 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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