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Burrow 0.5.0

Burrow grows up: Touch ID for cleanups, a live menu-bar HUD, an in-app cleanup history, an MCP server for AI agents, Simplified Chinese, and a one-command Homebrew install — on top of the five-tool window from 0.4.0.

The window

  • Status — live dashboard: health score, CPU, memory, GPU, disk, network, battery with per-metric sparklines and a sortable/pinnable process table.
  • Analyze — squarified treemap of your disk; drill in, reveal in Finder.
  • Software — installed-app list with search/sort + multi-select uninstall, plus a Homebrew Updates tab.
  • Clean — preview what's reclaimable, then clean for real.
  • Optimize — one-tap safe maintenance.

New in 0.5.0

  • Touch ID for sudo — cleanups that need admin rights can authenticate with your fingerprint (via mo touchid).
  • Menu-bar HUD — a richer drop-down with live status of jobs running in the app, plus an option to run without the menu-bar icon (Dock mode).
  • Activity — Mole's cleanup history (mo history) as an in-app pane: what ran, when, and how much it freed.
  • Ask your AI about your Mac (MCP) — a stdio MCP server (Burrow --mcp) for Claude Code / Cursor / Codex / Cline, including a semantic burrow_process_usage tool. Read-only.
  • Guided Mole setup — onboarding when mo is missing, plus in-app version + mo update.
  • Simplified Chinese localization (zh-Hans).
  • History — long-range charts (5 m → 90 d) over a local SQLite store.

Privacy & permissions

  • A Full Disk Access gate stops the macOS per-folder permission flood before scans that walk protected directories, with a Stop button and a "Scan with admin" escape hatch for cache scans (one prompt instead of many).
  • Nothing leaves your Mac: no analytics, no accounts; the MCP server is local, and the only opt-in network call is brew outdated.

Install

brew install --cask caezium/tap/burrow

Installs the mole engine and clears the Gatekeeper quarantine for you. Or download the .zip from this release and run xattr -cr /Applications/Burrow.app.

Unsigned, pre-1.0 — not yet notarized. Requires macOS 14+ and the Mole CLI (brew install mole).

Heads-up: this 0.5.0 build is unsigned, which on some Macs stops a Full Disk Access grant from "sticking." 0.5.1 fixes that with ad-hoc signing — brew upgrade --cask caezium/tap/burrow.

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