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Apple container · sanjay3290 | DecimalAI

devopsby sanjay3290

Apple container

sanjay3290/apple-container

Source sanjay3290/ai-skills ↗License Apache-2.0

Apple's open-source `container` CLI to build, run, and manage OCI/Linux containers as lightweight per-container VMs on Apple-silicon macOS — no Docker daemon required.

SkillScore96Maintained

Automatic

DevOps & SRE pack

Last verified 8/23/2026

What it changes

Passed 21 of 22 test cases with the skill, and 11 of 22 without it.

Without skill52%

With skill96%

Checks it passed that the model alone missed

Uses the -d flag to remove user data
Uses the command container system stop
Uses the -v flag to specify the version

and 14 more in the full report

11 fixed11 passed either way0 still failing1 broke

Pass-rate lift: +43 pp
Tokens: +44%
Agent turns: 0%
Response time: -56%

Model gemini-3.6-flashMeasured 8/23/2026v122 of 23 cases passed with skill · 22 comparable

Tokens, turns and time describe resource use, not a dollar price.

Use this skill

Save it into your project's skills folder. Claude Code picks it up in its next session.

curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/sanjay3290-apple-container/SKILL.md https://app.decimal.ai/s/sanjay3290-apple-container/SKILL.md

Want it pinned and updatable? pip install "decimalai>=0.15", then decimalai skills add sanjay3290-apple-container, and start Claude Code with claude --plugin-dir "$(git rev-parse --show-toplevel)/.agents"

1 · One-time — install the CLI (docs ↗)

pip install "decimalai>=0.15"

2 · Get the skill — writes .agents/skills/sanjay3290-apple-container/ and pins it in .decimal/skills.lock

decimalai skills add sanjay3290-apple-container

No CLI? Get the same file — curl · raw file

curl -fsSL --create-dirs -o .claude/skills/sanjay3290-apple-container/SKILL.md https://app.decimal.ai/s/sanjay3290-apple-container/SKILL.md

Raw file: /s/sanjay3290-apple-container/SKILL.md ↗ · machine-readable summary at /s/sanjay3290-apple-container.json ↗

Safety checks: 3 of 3 passed

Code scan CleanIntent PassedContent Clean

See it in action

One of 10 test cases the skill fixed. Same model, same prompt, with and without the skill.

1 of 10

Prompt

I am trying to run `container machine list` on my Mac, but my team member says this command wasn't available in older releases like 0.7.1. Which release introduced the persistent Linux machine command group to Apple's container CLI?

What was checked, without and with the skill
Checked	Without skill	With skill
Identifies version 1.0.0 as introducing the machine command group	Missed	Passed

case-17 · gemini-3.6-flash · 8/23/2026 · answers are capped and redacted

What's inside

The instructions your model reads when the skill loads.

SKILL.md124 lines5 files

Apple `container`

Apple's container is an open-source CLI for building, running, and managing OCI/Linux containers on Apple-silicon Macs. Each container runs inside its own lightweight virtual machine (backed by the Containerization framework and the Virtualization API), so there is no shared daemon like Docker — services run per-user via launchd. Images are standard OCI artifacts, so they interoperate with Docker registries and other OCI tooling. The CLI is deliberately Docker-like (container run, container build, and image ops under container image push/pull), but it is a distinct tool: do not assume Docker command paths, flags, defaults, or daemon behavior carry over (e.g. there is no container images/push/pull top-level command — image verbs live under container image).

Requirements

Apple silicon only (M1 or later). Intel Macs are not supported.
macOS 26 (Tahoe) is the officially supported target. The maintainers do not support older macOS and typically will not fix issues that can't be reproduced on 26. The binary still runs on macOS 15 (Sequoia) but with reduced networking: only the single default subnet is available, and the container network group and --network flag error out. macOS-26-gated features are called out throughout the reference files.
Version: this skill documents the 1.0.0 release (the fullest feature set). The machine group, container cp, container export, container prune, container image prune, container registry list, and container system version were added in 1.0.0 (not in 0.7.1) — features that postdate 0.7.1 are flagged (1.0.0+) in the reference files. Run container --version and container <group> --help to see what your installed build supports.
Install by downloading the signed .pkg installer from the project's GitHub releases (apple/container) and running it. See references/concepts.md for the full requirements/compatibility matrix and how the VM-per-container model works.

Setup

Install the signed package, then start the background services once:

Download the latest signed installer .pkg from the GitHub releases page.
Double-click the downloaded package and follow the prompts, entering your admin password so it can place files under /usr/local. (There is no documented CLI installer invocation — installation is via the GUI package.)
Start the services and confirm they are healthy:

Track record

Benchmark

21 / 22

test cases passed, vs 11 / 22 without

Adoption

Users: 7
Times used: 133

Safety and source details

SkillSafety

✓ 3 of 3 passed

Code scan14 of 15 checks clean

0 critical · 0 warning · 1 info — scanner v4 — 8/3/2026

View 15 scanner checks

live_secretremote_code_executionreverse_shelldata_exfiltrationssrf_metadataagent_snoopinganti_refusaldestructive_commandsobfuscated_unicodeunicode_homoglyphopaque_blobsuspicious_urltool_overreachtrigger_abuseprompt_injection_phrasing

No issues (informational notes only).

IntentSafe

LLM judge · does the skill do what it claims

ContentClean

LLM judge · policy & harmful-content review

Source

Imported

sanjay3290 / ai-skills

skills/apple-container/SKILL.md

View on GitHub ↗

License Apache-2.0Imported 8/3/2026Version v1Bundled 4 files

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