# SuprHackerSteve/Crescendo

Crescendo is a swift based, real time event viewer for macOS. It utilizes Apple's Endpoint Security Framework.

Repository: https://github.com/SuprHackerSteve/Crescendo
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/crescendo
Language: Swift
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: macos, endpointsecurity, swift
Last push: 2021-07-22T02:07:59+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 23/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2372, "days_push": 1869, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1077, forks 69 (observed 2026-08-28T04:03:29.731885+00:00)

## What it is
Crescendo is a Swift-based real-time event viewer for macOS built on Apple's Endpoint Security Framework. It consists of a system extension, a Swift framework wrapper around ESF, and a GUI app for viewing process and file system events.

## Use cases
- monitor file system and process events on macOS in real time
- investigate what processes are doing on my Mac
- explore Apple's Endpoint Security Framework with a working example
- view endpoint security events in a GUI instead of the console
- build a Swift app that uses the Endpoint Security Framework

## When to choose
- you need a native macOS GUI for real-time endpoint security events
- you want a reference implementation for Apple's Endpoint Security Framework in Swift
- you're doing security research or incident triage on macOS 10.15+

## When to avoid
- you need cross-platform endpoint monitoring (macOS only)
- you need a production-grade EDR with alerting and persistence
- you can't disable SIP/AMFI or obtain Apple's endpoint-security entitlement for development
- you need long-term maintained software - the last release was 2021

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: maintenance
- function: monitoring, security, logging, gui
- domain: security, monitoring, apple-ecosystem, developer-tools
- platform: -
- tags: endpoint-security, event-viewer, system-extension, macos-security, process-monitoring, file-monitoring, macos, swift

## Member repositories
- SuprHackerSteve/Crescendo (main) score 23

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:29.731885+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 2026-08-30T06:53:13.515005+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/SuprHackerSteve/Crescendo (fetched 2026-08-28T04:03:29.731885+00:00, sha 6649d9ab3b8e)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.