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SpawnSweep for Mac

Menu bar app showing the dev servers, simulators and build data AI coding agents leave running, with a preview-first cleanup.

By samirmaikap. Free and open source, MIT licence.

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SpawnSweep at a glance

Version
0.2.3
Released
2 November 2026
Download size
3.2 MB
Works on
Apple silicon and Intel
Licence
MIT
Category
Utilities
Developer
samirmaikap
GitHub stars
3

About SpawnSweep

macOS menu bar cleaner for AI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor). Finds leftover dev servers, busy ports, simulators, Docker stacks and git worktrees, and cleans them up with a preview first. Native SwiftUI, open source, everything stays on your Mac.

How to install SpawnSweep on a Mac

  1. Get OpenDMG. It is a free app store for open source Mac apps. Download OpenDMG.
  2. Search for SpawnSweep and press Get. OpenDMG downloads version 0.2.3 from samirmaikap's own GitHub release.
  3. Open it. The download is checked against its SHA-256 fingerprint and its signature is checked on your Mac before it lands in Applications.

Updates to SpawnSweep show up in OpenDMG and install with one button. No account is needed.

Prefer to do it by hand? The developer's file is on GitHub: SpawnSweep.zip (3.2 MB).

What is new in SpawnSweep 0.2.3

## What's new

- **Add SpawnSweep to Claude in one click.** When Claude Code or the Claude app is on your Mac, the Sessions page offers **Add to Claude**. It adds a pane beside your Claude chat that lists what your agents left running, and a 🌔 with the count in Claude's footer that opens it. Not now hides the offer for good, and **Connections › Claude Code pane** turns it on or off any time.
- The Claude pane itself (plugin 0.1.2) opens with each Claude session and now lists your git worktrees too. If you added it before, `claude plugin update spawnsweep@spawnsweep` in Terminal gets the new version.

## Install

The easiest way is Terminal, which installs with no macOS warning: `curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/samirmaikap/spawnsweep/main/scripts/install.sh | bash`

Or download SpawnSweep.zip, open it, and move SpawnSweep to Applications.

### If macOS says "SpawnSweep" Not Opened

This build isn't notarized by Apple yet, so the first time you open a browser download macOS says *Apple could not verify "SpawnSweep" is free of malware*. It only happens once.

1. Click **Done**, not Move to Bin.
2. Open **System Settings › Privacy & Security** and scroll to the bottom. Next to the message about SpawnSweep, click **Open Anyway**, then confirm with your password or Touch ID. If you don't see the button, open SpawnSweep again, then come back.
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