MIT free native macOS all-in-one (SwiftUI) from serial launcher Henry Zhang: junk cleanup, dev-artifact purge, app uninstall with leftovers, duplicate finder, safe maintenance, squarified disk treemap, live CPU/memory/GPU/network status with months of local metric history, Homebrew updates - plus a built-in MCP server so AI agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) can query and clean the Mac. Launched as a GUI wrapper shelling out to Mole's `mo` CLI; since v0.11 bundles its own `burrow-engine` binary (FSL-1.1) whose commands mirror `mo`. Signed/notarized since v0.11.0; Windows previews in WinUI 3/.NET 8 and a newer Electron+React rewrite. 1.6k stars.
MIT (GitHub API); bundled burrow-engine is FSL-1.1-ALv2 source-available
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1,618 (as of 2026-10-31)
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Commenter forzaitalia458: 'you both made Mole wrappers with the same name which could be confusing.' Author: 'i didnt know someone already named theirs burrow, my bad.'
Launch post: 'it shells out to `mo` for the actual work'; readme now: bundled burrow-engine 'whose commands mirror Mole's `mo`' - a compatibility-layer relationship, and the post actively tells readers to buy mole.fit.
Research notes
Second layer of the Mole economy: a free GUI on the free CLI, while the upstream author monetizes the same idea as mole.fit ($9 in June, $19 now per Burrow's own readme).
AI-agent-native cleaner: built-in MCP server is a headline feature, 'so AI agents like Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor can watch, query, and care for your Mac' - consent-gated and audited, but the cleaner now takes orders from agents.
Commenters suspected AI authorship on sight and got no denial; author is a visibly heavy Claude Code user.
Single-post launch. Thread contains the unanswered 'You mean Claude built it' exchange, the burrow-public name collision, and a 'replaced a clean my mac subscription' reply.
I have already seen several separate menu-bar apps for Homebrew updates, memory, disk usage, system stats… I wanted all of it in one free, open-source app instead of a subscription plus three paid utilities — Problem statement
No background root helper — when a cleanup needs admin, macOS's own dialog asks you, per action — Trust signal
there's also an optional MCP server so AI Agents can query your Mac — Tech bingo