Mactop Skill

Mactop Skill

Execute mactop in headless TOON mode and parse the output for hardware metrics.

Prerequisites

• mactop installed: brew install mactop
• PATH includes /usr/sbin: Required for sysctl access

Usage

Get Full Metrics

mactop --format toon --headless --count 1

Parse Key Metrics

CPU Usage:

mactop --format toon --headless --count 1 | grep "^cpu_usage:" | awk '{print $2}'

RAM (used/total GB):

mactop --format toon --headless --count 1 | grep -E "^  (Used|Total):" | awk '{printf "%.1f", $2/1073741824}'

GPU Usage:

mactop --format toon --headless --count 1 | grep "^gpu_usage:" | awk '{print $2}'

Power (total/CPU/GPU):

mactop --format toon --headless --count 1 | grep -E "^  (TotalPower|CPUPower|GPUPower):" | awk '{print $2}'

Thermal State: