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maintaining-macos-health
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Hands-on playbook for macOS disk cleanup, dev-machine optimization, and proactive health alerting. Use when the Mac is full or slow, when a process persistently burns CPU, when a kernel panic / watchdog timeout / vm-compressor-space-shortage / Jetsam event happened, when the user asks to free disk space, audit storage, set up disk/memory/CPU alerts, or restore the same monitoring on a new Mac. Built around Mole (`mo` CLI) for safety guards plus a custom LaunchAgent-based alerter for active warnings. Covers Apple Silicon laptops with heavy AI/Docker workloads. Not for general macOS support, har
Why this score
This repo hosts 10 skills, so its 163 stars are split between them (about 16 each) for scoring.
Popularity score: 61/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank
Security
Scanned Oct 20, 2026 at commit 5f831b43e388, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.
What its code does:
- Runs shell commands Common for dev tools. Read the commands it runs.assets/apply-cleanup-selection.py:239, assets/mac-health-action:274, assets/mac-health-check:592 and 10 more
- Makes network requestsSKILL.md
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| Name | Score | Stars | Context | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| This onemaintaining-macos-health CodeAlive-AI/ai-driven-development · Skill | 61 | ★ 163 | ≈156 always | 17d ago |
| macos-control NakaokaRei/SwiftAutoGUI · Skill Both about maco and mac | 64 | ★ 94 | ≈24 always | 18d ago |
| macos-development rshankras/claude-code-apple-skills · Skill Both about maco and mac | 57 | ★ 813 | ≈62 always | 3mo ago |
| macos-menubar-tuist-app Dimillian/Skills · Skill Both about maco and maintaining | 58 | ★ 4.0k | ≈90 always | 7mo ago |
| build-and-run-macos-app robinebers/openusage · Skill Both about maco and mac | 76 | ★ 4.4k | ≈61 always | 17d ago |
| macos-design-guidelines ehmo/platform-design-skills · Skill Both about maco and apple | 51 | ★ 616 | ≈65 always | 8mo ago |