caezium/burrow

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

What it solves

Burrow is a system companion app for macOS (and Windows preview) that centralizes system maintenance, monitoring, and cleanup. It solves the problem of having to use multiple fragmented tools for disk analysis, junk removal, and hardware monitoring, while providing a specialized interface for AI agents to interact with the system.

How it works

Burrow bundles a native engine (burrow-engine) to perform system operations. It provides a graphical user interface for tasks like cleaning caches, purging developer artifacts (e.g., node_modules), and uninstalling apps. It also maintains a local SQLite database of system metrics for long-term history and runs an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server, allowing AI agents to query and manage the system via a standardized API.

Who it’s for

  • Mac and Windows users who want a free, open-source alternative to paid system optimizers.
  • Developers who need to quickly purge build artifacts and manage disk space.
  • AI Agent users (e.g., Claude Code, Cursor) who want their agents to be able to monitor and maintain their local machine.

Highlights

  • System Maintenance: Includes junk cleanup, developer artifact purging, and app uninstallation with leftover removal.
  • AI Agent Integration: Built-in MCP server allows AI agents to query system state and perform consent-gated cleanups.
  • Disk Analysis: Features a squarified treemap for visualizing disk usage.
  • Live Monitoring: Real-time dashboard for CPU, GPU, Memory, Network, and Battery, with long-term metric history.
  • Native Performance: Built with SwiftUI for macOS and WinUI 3/.NET 8 for Windows.

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