remote-mac

A guide for connecting to and working on remote Macs, including MacBooks, Mac Studios, hosted Macs, Tailscale, SSH, and OpenClaw.

In plain words
What is it for?
Running or checking work on named remote Macs, connecting over a local network or Tailscale, using SSH, and verifying the target machine before making changes.
Why use it?
It helps choose the correct remote computer and preserve safe, verifiable access when several machines are available.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/steipete/agent-scripts/remote-mac
Any agent
npx skills add steipete/agent-scripts --skill remote-mac
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/steipete/agent-scripts

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 28 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,990 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00028 $0.02990
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.01495
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00598
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00299

Measured 2d ago against content hash 6edc02f043c2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

remote-mac 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 2d 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/remote-mac/SKILL.md · 133 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 133 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Remote Mac

Use when the user says MacBook, Mac Studio, clawmac, foundationclaw, foundationmac, megaclaw, miniclaw, Molty, Tailscale, or asks to run/check something on one of Peter's Macs.

Peter's Topology

  • Primary workstation for interactive approvals and day-to-day work: Peter's SF Mac Studio, local/Tailscale name steipete-studio-sf. Peter's MacBook Pro (steipete-mbp) is the portable/fallback workstation; do not route prompts there merely because it is online.
  • London workhorse: Mac Studio, Tailscale peters-mac-studio-1, usually best reached as [email protected] when on its LAN.
  • SF primary workstation: steipete-studio-sf. Its current Tailscale target and retired-node state live in private manager computers.yaml; do not choose a peer merely because it appears online.
  • clawstudio is the separate SF data server and personal OpenClaw Gateway host, formerly mac-studio-sf2. Its exact current peer IDs, addresses, hardware identity, and reconciliation state live only in private manager inventory and docs/tailnet-portal.md. If multiple peers appear, pin each backend command, verify the physical host locally, preserve a rollback path, and follow the private reconciliation gate. Do not publish or copy the private topology into public runbooks.
  • SF Mini: local/Tailscale name steipete-mini-sf. Its current kernel and retired GUI targets live in private manager inventory. The Mini uses classic key-only OpenSSH over the tailnet TCP 22 grant because GUI Tailscale builds cannot host Tailscale SSH. Its own key is installed on both SF Studios, MegaClaw, and MiniClaw; see private manager docs/fleet-setup.md for live proof and offline/provider-blocked directions. Do not confuse it with FoundationClaw.
  • Personal cloud OpenClaw: clawmac (Peter may typo/say crabmac), MacStadium service 100121942, Tailscale/SSH steipete@clawmac, gateway via LaunchAgent ai.openclaw.gateway, loopback 127.0.0.1:18789, Telegram connected. The current 2026-08-01 provider network outage is tracked by Atlanta remote hands on tickets #11481/#11484; one hard reboot restored SSH only briefly, so do not repeat power cycles.
  • Network split:
    • corporate: Peter's work-managed environment. Treat Mac Studio as the main remote Mac to configure and inspect there.
    • personal: Peter's personal LAN / personal cloud environment, including clawmac.
  • Network boundary: clawmac and the personal LAN are unreachable from Peter's corporate Mac. Never use clawmac as a relay or LAN vantage from there.
  • Molty's former Mac Studio gateway is retired and must remain disabled; real Molty runs separately on Hetzner. Do not use the old Mac Studio runtime as a healthy-state expectation.
  • megaclaw: Virtualized.gg product 22 (Mac Studio M4 Max, Phoenix), the active alternate Mac worker. Tailscale/SSH steipete@megaclaw. No OpenClaw gateway by design; the personal Gateway runs on clawstudio. Do not configure or start one on megaclaw.
  • miniclaw: Virtualized.gg product 24 (Mac mini M4 Pro, Phoenix), public SSH [email protected]. Live 2026-08-01 state regressed: the privileged Homebrew daemon owns stale duplicate miniclaw-1 and cannot reach coordination, while canonical miniclaw is unusable. Use public SSH until the stored personal admin credential is explicitly authorized for a privileged repair; do not claim the canonical tailnet path is healthy from provider SSH alone.
  • foundationclaw: MacStadium service 100124960, M2.L in Atlanta, public address recorded in computers.yaml. Provider SSH verified a Mac14,12 M2 Pro Mac mini, hardware UUID, and the administrator admin account; its canonical local hostname is foundationclaw. Signed Tailscale and Jump Desktop Connect v10 are installed, but the previously working provider credential stopped authenticating and a data-preserving reset is pending on ticket #11386 before Tailscale enrollment and first-run GUI permissions can continue. Do not merge it with the separate SF Mini.

Read the full file on GitHub · 133 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. 2d ago First seen · 133 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 6edc02f043c2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

remote-mac is a skill published in the GitHub repository steipete/agent-scripts (6,580 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 2,990 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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