files-buddy

files-buddy is a skill for Claude Code from wyattowalsh/agents. It costs 57 tokens per session (3,631 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A macOS file-management assistant for auditing storage, reviewing duplicates, organizing files, and planning or carrying out cleanup. It also covers cloud-drive folders, caches, containers, virtual machines, and backups.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit a Mac, find exact or similar duplicates, review caches, organize or rename files, archive data, plan cloud offloading, and reclaim storage.
Why use it?
It helps you understand where disk space is going and reduce clutter without making unreviewed changes. Plans, previews, logs, and restore paths make cleanup easier to check and undo.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the agents plugin — 71 skills, 20 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to audit a Mac, find exact or similar duplicates, review caches, organize or rename files, archive data, plan cloud offloading, and reclaim storage.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wyattowalsh/agents/files-buddy
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 wyattowalsh/agents --skill files-buddy
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wyattowalsh/agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install agents, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 71 skills, 20 agents, 5 hooks.

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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,631 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.
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 $0.00057 $0.03631
Opus 5.5 $0.00023 $0.01452
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00726
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00363

Measured 1mo ago against content hash ee3b972663da, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

files-buddy 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 1mo ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 10 executable files (scripts/asset_toolkit/__init__.py, scripts/asset_toolkit/_shared.py, scripts/asset_toolkit/common.py, …), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/files-buddy/SKILL.md · 231 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 231 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Files Buddy

Mac storage command center for safe filesystem organization, duplicate review, cache analysis, cloud offload planning, and cleanup execution. It delegates to free/OSS CLI tools and treats iCloud Drive, Google Drive, developer caches, AI/model caches, containers, VMs, backups, and app-managed libraries as first-class storage surfaces.

Scope: macOS file management, storage audits, cleanup/offload plans, exact and similar duplicate review, progress dashboards, manifest-backed execution, and undo. NOT for shell scripts (shell-scripter), CI/CD (devops-engineer), database work (database-architect), or Linux/Windows cleanup.

Canonical Vocabulary

Canonical terms: use these terms exactly in plans, reports, manifests, and dashboard labels.

Term Definition
all-local Whole-Mac audit scope: home folders, cloud roots, /Volumes/*, caches, dev/AI stores, containers, VMs, and report-only app libraries
dry-run Tool-native preview or read-only simulation before any mutation
approved plan User-confirmed plan naming exact operation classes, paths, savings, risks, and restore path
manifest JSON operation log under ~/.files-buddy/manifests/ used for undo and verification
progress snapshot Live JSON at ~/.files-buddy/runs/{run-id}/progress.json
blast radius File count, local bytes, cloud bytes, directories, and operation classes affected
protected path Hard-blocked or escalated-confirmation path from references/protected-paths.md
offload candidate File or directory that can free local bytes while preserving recoverability elsewhere
repercussion Concrete consequence: re-download, rebuild, re-index, app breakage, sync delete, quota impact, or lost snapshot
dependency evidence Git refs, process refs, app library ownership, package/cache ownership, cloud state, or model/runtime references
exact duplicate Same content hash and distinct inode/link identity
similar-media group Perceptual image/video/audio candidates; never auto-trash
cloud-safe No automatic synced deletion; materialize only with approval; verify provider sync state
dashboard Static report plus optional live-refresh progress view built from the shadcn/ui + Tailwind v4 + Recharts source contract

Read the full file on GitHub · 231 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. 1mo ago First seen · 231 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A ee3b972663da

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files-buddy is a skill published in the GitHub repository wyattowalsh/agents (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 3,631 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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