Raccoon

Read the state of your Mac from Raycast, and put right what is wrong without leaving the list.

Raccoon is a macOS companion toolkit. This extension is its front end: twenty-one commands, each with a view built for what that command actually reports.

What you get

Every list is grouped and ordered by what you came for, and colour means the same thing in all of them:

Colour	What it means
red	needs doing now
orange	deserves attention
green	in order
grey	information, no judgement

git ranks repositories by where the work exists rather than how much there is, so two commits that were never pushed outrank four hundred uncommitted files. ssh ranks keys by what the finding costs: a private key with no passphrase is a credential in plain text, and it comes before one with loose permissions. backup says whether this Mac is backed up in its first line.

Two keystrokes

Enter resolves the row under the cursor. Cmd+Enter resolves everything on screen. What that means differs per command, because the commands differ:

Command	Enter	Cmd+Enter
Security Audit	apply that one fix	fix everything shown
Memory	quit that process	quit the listed ones
Ports	close that port	close the reachable ones
Startup	stop that login item or agent	stop all of that kind
Wi-Fi	forget that network	forget all but the one you are on
Environment	remove that dangling symlink	remove all of them
Certificates	remove that expired certificate	remove every expired one
Git	push that clean repository	push every clean one
SSH	add a passphrase, fix permissions	fix every key that needs it
Xcode	delete DerivedData	that, and shut the simulators down
Trash	empty it, every volume at once	the same; Finder empties them all

Where nothing is put right by a command (battery, disk, network, backup, fonts, PATH overlaps) both keystrokes open the one place the setting actually lives.

Anything that changes the machine asks first and shows the exact command. It then runs in Terminal rather than silently: several of these need administrator rights and Touch ID has nowhere to prompt behind a Raycast view, a command that fails should fail where you can read why, and an action that removes something should leave a record of what it removed.

Setup

This extension drives the rcc command-line tool. Install it once:

brew install thousandflowers/tap/rcc

The extension finds rcc in the usual Homebrew locations. If yours lives somewhere else, set the Raccoon CLI preference to its full path.

Administrator rights

The security audit and its fixes need root. Rather than a Touch ID prompt per command, run Configure Admin Session once: it installs a visudo-checked sudoers drop-in, and the Admin Session preference decides whether it lasts sixty minutes or until restart.

Links

• Raccoon on GitHub
• Report an issue