# caezium/burrow

🐹 Cleanup, app management, maintenance, disk analysis, and live status in one free, open-source, native Mac app + extensive support for AI agents. Coming to Windows

Repository: https://github.com/caezium/burrow
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/caezium-burrow
Homepage: https://burrow.computer
Language: Swift
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: cleaner, disk-usage, macos, mcp, menubar, mole, open-source, swift, swiftui, system-monitor, windows, winui3
Last push: 2026-08-26T08:21:44+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 80/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 97, longevity 6
- inputs: {"age_days": 94, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 23, "gap_med": 1.0, "n_releases_24m": 27}
- flags: young
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1318, forks 169 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:21.134820+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: application
- maturity: active
- function: developer-tools, monitoring, mcp, gui, file-system
- domain: developer-tools, self-hosted
- platform: windows
- tags: disk-cleanup, app-uninstaller, duplicate-finder, disk-usage-analyzer, system-monitor, menubar, mcp-server, ai-agents, swiftui, winui3, open-source, automation, macos, desktop, swift

## Member repositories
- caezium/burrow (main) score 80

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:21.134820+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:47:57.294915+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/caezium/burrow (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:21.134820+00:00, sha 087b0da1f0e9)
  - homepage: https://burrow.computer (fetched 2026-08-29T12:06:35.573847+00:00, sha 9e3fe2d7436e)
  - site_page: https://burrow.computer/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T12:06:35.582792+00:00, sha c1c5f07e6d81)
  - site_page: https://burrow.computer/install (fetched 2026-08-29T12:06:35.584820+00:00, sha c5d4458e37de)
  - site_page: https://burrow.computer/releases (fetched 2026-08-29T12:06:35.586402+00:00, sha ccf2767eeb4a)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.