CoreTend MCP server

CoreTend

See what fills your Mac. Clear it safely. Your whole Mac in one click, caches and developer files cleaned in one review, apps uninstalled completely — everything goes to the Trash, with Undo.

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Four spaces

History of every scan and move stays at the sidebar's foot.

Around the Mac

off through a small signed helper, installed only when you turn it on in Settings › System (decision 0006).

• Shortcuts and Siri: Get Free Space, Get Space to Clear, Open CoreTend (read and open only).
• Widget: free space and what the last Clean found.
• Finder: right-click a folder › Analyze with CoreTend; or drop it on the Dock icon.
• System features (optional): tidy /Library/Caches and turn third-party system services on or

What CoreTend will never do

item again just before, and Undo puts it back.

• Erase anything for good. Moves go to the macOS Trash after your review; CoreTend checks each

exists, and you can turn it off in Settings.

• Scare you. No health score, no alarm, no invented figure.
• Watch you. No account, no telemetry. The only request asks this site whether an update

Install

• Download CoreTend-2.2.0-universal.dmg (notarized) from Releases or the site.
• Homebrew: brew install --cask ahmetbsbnr/coretend/coretend (also links coretend in your PATH)
• Terminal and AI assistants: coretend on npm — npx coretend clean · npx -y coretend mcp; see CLI.md.

macOS 14 Sonoma or later, Apple silicon or Intel. English and French (follows macOS). CoreTend asks for Full Disk Access once, to read Mail, Safari and app data; without it, it reads what macOS allows.

Build from source

swift build --product CoreTendApp   # the app
swift build --product CoreTendCLI   # a read-only command-line tool
make qualify                        # every test, gate and check
make package-local                  # an unsigned CoreTend.app in Artifacts/

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.