A Mac that "has a lot of garbage" has three kinds of things on it: caches a program will rebuild, data the owner might still want, and the running state that makes the machine feel slow. Cleaners that treat the first two the same either delete too little to matter or something that mattered. This skill keeps them apart: the survey only measures, the safe tier only removes the regenerable kind, and the rest becomes a list the user decides from. Nothing of the user's is deleted outright; what they choose to let go is moved to a dated folder in the Trash so it can be put back.
Mac Cleanup is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the malware-analysis sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/mac-cleanup/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when asked to free disk space, when \"my Mac feels slow\", to find duplicate apps installed twice, or when System Data is huge and something is eating it. Not for Windows or Linux, malware scans, or deleting user files without an explicit yes.
The Mac Cleanup Claude Code skill is built for security engineers, penetration testers, DevSecOps practitioners, and development teams hardening codebases and infrastructure. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 211,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/mac-cleanup curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/mac-cleanup/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/mac-cleanup/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/mac-cleanup/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/mac-cleanup/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\mac-cleanup\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/mac-cleanup/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at claudskills.com/install/.SKILL.md file that lives under ~/.claude/skills/<name>/ and tells the Claude Code CLI agent how to perform a specific task (instructions, prompts, allowed tools). Skills are auto-discovered at session start. Mac Cleanup is one of 67,000+ skills indexed in the open ClaudSkills catalog, classified under the Security category. Learn more at /learn/what-is-a-claude-skill/.If you reference this skill in a blog post, paper, or documentation, you can cite it as:
@misc{mac-cleanup-2026,
author = {basitalisandhu},
title = {Mac Cleanup [Claude Code skill]},
year = {2026},
publisher = {ClaudSkills},
url = {https://claudskills.com/skills/mac-cleanup/}
}Grade A · scanned 2026-10-25 — free static scan against the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10.
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