mole-mac-cleaner

Skill by ara.so — Daily 2026 Skills collection. Mole ( mo ) is an all-in-one macOS maintenance CLI that combines deep cleaning, smart app uninstallation, disk analysis, system optimization, live monitoring, and project artifact purging into a single binary. Always dry-run destructive commands first: Cleans user app caches, browser caches (Chrome, Safari, Firefox), developer tool caches (Xcode, Node.js, npm), system logs, temp files, app-specific caches (Spotify, Dropbox, Slack), and Trash. Whitelist config lives at ~/.config/mole/ . Edit it to protect paths you want to keep. Finds apps, shows size and last-used date, then removes the app bundle plus all related files: Optimizations include: JSON output example: Navigator shortcuts inside mo analyze : JSON output example: Shortcuts inside mo status : k toggles the cat mascot, q quits. Scans for node_modules , target , build , dist , venv , and similar directories. Projects newer than 7 days are unselected by default.