apple-container

apple-container is a skill for Claude Code from sanjay3290/ai-skills. It costs 146 tokens per session (2,057 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A command-line tool from Apple for building, running, and managing OCI/Linux containers on Apple-silicon Macs. Containers run in lightweight virtual machines, without a Docker daemon.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build and run containers and manage container images on Apple-silicon Macs. It officially targets macOS 26 and does not support Intel Macs.
Why use it?
It provides container workflows on supported Macs without relying on Docker or Podman, while using standard OCI images that work with container registries.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the ai-skills plugin — 24 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to build and run containers and manage container images on Apple-silicon Macs. It officially targets macOS 26 and does not support Intel Macs.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sanjay3290/ai-skills/apple-container
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 sanjay3290/ai-skills --skill apple-container
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sanjay3290/ai-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 24 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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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/sanjay3290/ai-skills/apple-container"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/sanjay3290/ai-skills/apple-container.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 146 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,057 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: 1 finding, up to high

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 →

  • high Tool Misuse · line 89
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
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 $0.00146 $0.02057
Opus 5 $0.00073 $0.01028
Sonnet 5 $0.00029 $0.00411
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00206

Measured 11d ago against content hash e0a9f14532d9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

apple-container 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 11d 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.

skills/apple-container/SKILL.md · 141 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 141 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Apple container

Apple's container is an open-source CLI for building, running, and managing OCI/Linux containers on Apple-silicon Macs. Each container runs inside its own lightweight virtual machine (backed by the Containerization framework and the Virtualization API), so there is no shared daemon like Docker — services run per-user via launchd. Images are standard OCI artifacts, so they interoperate with Docker registries and other OCI tooling. The CLI is deliberately Docker-like (container run, container build, and image ops under container image push/pull), but it is a distinct tool: do not assume Docker command paths, flags, defaults, or daemon behavior carry over (e.g. there is no container images/push/pull top-level command — image verbs live under container image).

Requirements

  • Apple silicon only (M1 or later). Intel Macs are not supported.
  • macOS 26 (Tahoe) is the officially supported target. The maintainers do not support older macOS and typically will not fix issues that can't be reproduced on 26. The binary still runs on macOS 15 (Sequoia) but with reduced networking: only the single default subnet is available, and the container network group and --network flag error out. macOS-26-gated features are called out throughout the reference files.
  • Version: this skill documents the 1.0.0 release (the fullest feature set). The machine group, container cp, container export, container prune, container image prune, container registry list, and container system version were added in 1.0.0 (not in 0.7.1) — features that postdate 0.7.1 are flagged (1.0.0+) in the reference files. Run container --version and container <group> --help to see what your installed build supports.
  • Install by downloading the signed .pkg installer from the project's GitHub releases (apple/container) and running it. See references/concepts.md for the full requirements/compatibility matrix and how the VM-per-container model works.

Read the full file on GitHub · 141 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 11d ago First seen · 141 lines · 146 tokens per session scan A e0a9f14532d9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

apple-container is a skill published in the GitHub repository sanjay3290/ai-skills (420 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 146 tokens to every session and 2,057 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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