bx-mac: Sandbox any macOS app — only your project directory stays accessible

by holtwick · Claude Skill · ★ 106

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How to install bx-mac

npm install -g bx-mac
git clone https://github.com/holtwick/bx-mac.git

Taken from the project's README on GitHub.

Security audit verdict: SAFE · quality 66/100

Flagged: sudo usage. Scanned against 42 published rules built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy, refreshed every 8 hours.

The quality score combines nine heuristic checks of the repo and its README: completeness, clarity, specificity, examples, structure, agent readiness, step-by-step content, instruction quality and security notes. It rates how well the project explains itself to an agent, not the code.

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Quick Facts

Stars106
Forks3
LanguageTypeScript
CategoryClaude Skill
LicenseMIT
Quality Score66/100
Open Issues2
Last Updated2026-10-14
Created2026-03-28
Platformsclaude-code, cli, node, vscode
Est. Tokens~20k

About bx-mac

📦 bx Put your AI in a box. Launch VSCode, Claude Code, a terminal, or any command in a macOS sandbox — your tools can only see the project you're working on. Not a vault, but a reasonable safety net. 🤔 Why? AI-powered coding tools like Claude Code, Copilot, or Cline run with broad file system access.

Compatible Skills

These tools work well together with bx-mac for enhanced workflows:

  • apple-notes-mcp — semantic(0.20)+complementary+same_lang+similar_pop+shared_platform (52%)
  • claude-warden — semantic(0.17)+complementary+similar_pop+shared_platform (46%)
  • apple-docs-mcp — semantic(0.18)+complementary+rare_topics+same_lang+shared_platform (46%)

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How this security grade is produced

Grades come from a rule-based scan built on the SlowMist agent-security taxonomy: 42 published rules, covering credential harvesting, data exfiltration, curl | sh installers and more. It is a first-layer scan, not a manual audit — we say so rather than overstate it.

The scale of the problem is documented independently: Liu et al. (2026), in a study of 31,132 agent skills, report that 26.1% contain security vulnerabilities. Our own full-catalog census is published as a citable open dataset.

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