Use the report before the cleaner
Mole can analyse disk use, remove application leftovers, clear caches, inspect
developer artefacts, and report Mac health from the terminal. Its analyze and
status commands support JSON, which makes the output useful to scripts and AI
agents as well as people.
A sensible first run is mo analyze --json. Give the report to an agent and
ask it to group the largest entries by likely purpose, but make the deletion
decision yourself.
Destructive commands need a preview
Mole documents clean, purge, uninstall, installer, and remove as
destructive operations. Run their --dry-run form first, inspect each path,
and approve changes one at a time. Operation history is available through
mo history, but a log is not a backup.
The supported Homebrew route targets macOS 14 or later. An experimental Windows branch exists, but the normal tool is built for a Mac.