apple-container

apple-container is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills. It costs 37 tokens per session (2,314 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A workflow for using Apple's open-source container command-line tool on Apple-silicon Macs. A container packages an application and its dependencies; here, each Linux container runs in its own lightweight virtual machine rather than through a shared Docker daemon.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to build and run Linux containers, execute commands, view logs, manage images and networking, and adapt Docker-style workflows to Apple's container tooling.
Why use it?
It provides a Docker-like way to build, run, inspect, and manage containers without requiring Docker. Standard OCI images can still work with Docker registries and other compatible tools.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Part of the agentic-awesome-skills plugin — 196 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to build and run Linux containers, execute commands, view logs, manage images and networking, and adapt Docker-style workflows to Apple's container tooling.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills/apple-container
About the project

AAS Core is a local control plane for coding agents that lets them search a large catalogue of skills, choose a stack, validate it, and create a reproducible plan. It is used to assemble and review agent workflows through its CLI, local MCP server, catalogue, plugins, and Workbench. The catalogue add-ons provide the skills, plugins, bundles, and workflows that AAS Core helps agents select and validate.

sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills · 46,230 stars · on GitHub · sickn33.github.io

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 sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills --skill apple-container
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install agentic-awesome-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 196 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 37 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,314 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
  • Snyk pass 7 Sept 2026
  • 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 103
    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 $0.00037 $0.02314
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.01157
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00463
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00231

Measured 5d ago against content hash d0548efd7dfe, 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 5d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

4 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

plugins/agentic-awesome-skills-claude/skills/apple-container/SKILL.md · 166 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 166 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Apple container

When to Use

  • Use when building, running, or managing OCI/Linux containers on Apple-silicon macOS with Apple's open-source container CLI
  • Use when you want lightweight per-container VMs instead of a Docker daemon
  • Use when translating Docker-style workflows (build, run, exec, logs, networking) to Apple's container tooling

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).

Safety Gate

Container installation, service startup, image pulls, builds, runs, registry login, pushes, and resource cleanup change local or remote state. Explain the exact command, image registry, mounts, ports, privileges, and data-persistence impact, then obtain explicit user approval before executing it. Do not provide registry credentials, mount sensitive paths, or expose ports without the user's explicit instruction.

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 · 166 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. 5d ago First seen · 166 lines · 37 tokens per session scan A d0548efd7dfe

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apple-container is a skill published in the GitHub repository sickn33/agentic-awesome-skills (46,230 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 37 tokens to every session and 2,314 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-05.