caezium/burrow

Health v2 · maintenance only

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1318 stars · 169 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

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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

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