caezium/burrow
🐹 Cleanup, app management, maintenance, disk analysis, and live status in one free, open-source, native Mac app + extensive support for AI agents. observed · 2026-10-09
Health v2 · maintenance only
78/100
- Activity 98
- Release rhythm 90
- Longevity 10
Flags: young
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: 1.0
- age_days: 142
- days_rel: 71
- days_push: 12
- n_releases_24m: 27
Adoption not part of the score
1555 stars · 181 forks observed · 2026-10-09
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Burrow is a free, open-source native macOS desktop utility (with a Windows beta) that combines junk cleanup, dev-artifact purging, app uninstalling, duplicate finding, disk treemap analysis, and live system monitoring in one app. It bundles an MIT-licensed engine forked from Mole's CLI and exposes a built-in loopback-only MCP server so AI agents like Claude Code and Cursor can query and manage the machine with consent-gated, auditable actions.
Use cases
- clean caches and junk files from my mac
- uninstall apps and remove leftover files
- find duplicate files on disk
- visualize what is taking up disk space
- purge node_modules and derived data leftovers
- monitor system status from the mac menubar
- let an AI agent clean and maintain my computer via MCP
- find old installers in my downloads folder
When to choose
- you want one free open-source app instead of a cleaner, uninstaller, duplicate finder, disk mapper, and monitor
- you want AI coding agents to inspect and maintain your Mac over MCP with consent-gated actions
- you want a native, notarized macOS utility with local-only data and no telemetry
When to avoid
- you need deep antivirus or malware scanning rather than cleanup
- you need a cross-platform tool today and cannot tolerate a beta Windows build
- you prefer a pure CLI workflow rather than a GUI app
Facets
application · maturity active
developer-tools monitoring mcp gui file-system developer-tools self-hosted windows disk-cleanup app-uninstaller duplicate-finder disk-usage-analyzer system-monitor menubar mcp-server ai-agents swiftui winui3 open-source automation macos desktop swift
5 sources
- readme: https://github.com/caezium/burrow · fetched 2026-10-09 · 087b0da1f0e9
- homepage: https://burrow.computer · fetched 2026-08-29 · 9e3fe2d7436e
- site_page: https://burrow.computer/docs · fetched 2026-08-29 · c1c5f07e6d81
- site_page: https://burrow.computer/install · fetched 2026-08-29 · c5d4458e37de
- site_page: https://burrow.computer/releases · fetched 2026-08-29 · ccf2767eeb4a
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| caezium/burrow | main | 78 |
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