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Deep clean and optimize your Mac.

Changelog

1. Uninstall no longer freezes at prompts: background scan workers could steal the terminal and suspend mo uninstall before or after a removal; three layered fixes keep the prompt in the foreground on every shell.
2. Accurate CPU numbers on Apple Silicon: mo status no longer reads parked efficiency cores as 90-100% busy or measures its own startup burst, so totals now track top instead of running 30+ points high.
3. New Legacy Overrides step in optimize: detects hidden App Nap and disk-image verification overrides left by old tweak utilities, and removes only the override key so macOS defaults apply again.
4. Cleanup covers more developer leftovers: guarded Codex Desktop update staging and Tart VM caches, Terragrunt caches in purge, and stale Edge updater payloads older than your installed Edge.
5. Install integrity is now fail-closed: a failed checksum or attestation aborts the install instead of silently downgrading to an unverified source build, and delete-path validation now resolves ancestor symlinks before deciding.
6. Cleanup reports what it actually did: item counts match what was cleaned, sub-megabyte amounts show as KB instead of 0MB, and Gemini CLI chat checkpoints are never treated as temp files.
7. Smoother terminal experience: gg jump-to-top works on stock macOS bash, optimize renders correctly under comma-decimal locales, and the health score no longer rises as load gets worse.

更新日志

1. 卸载不再卡死在提示符：后台扫描进程可能抢走终端，让 mo uninstall 在删除前后被挂起；三层修复让提示始终保持在前台，各种 shell 下都不再冻结。
2. Apple Silicon 上 CPU 数字准了：mo status 不再把休眠的能效核读成 90-100%，也不再把自身启动负载测进去，总占用与 top 一致，不再虚高 30 多个点。
3. optimize 新增历史遗留项审计：检测老优化工具留下的 App Nap 全局开关和磁盘镜像跳过校验设置，只删覆盖键本身，让系统回到默认行为。
4. 清理覆盖更多开发者残留：受保护的 Codex Desktop 更新暂存和 Tart 虚拟机缓存、purge 支持 Terragrunt 缓存、清除比已装 Edge 更旧的更新器残留。
5. 安装校验改为失败即中止：校验不通过时直接停止安装，不再静默降级到未经验证的源码构建；删除路径校验现在会先解析上级软链再判定。
6. 清理结果如实汇报：条目数与实际清理一致，小于 1MB 的清理量以 KB 显示而不是 0MB，Gemini CLI 对话检查点永远不会被当作临时文件清掉。
7. 终端体验更顺：gg 跳转到顶部在系统自带 bash 上恢复可用，逗号小数 locale 下 optimize 正常渲染，健康分不会再随负载升高反而变好。

Thanks

Issue reporters and PR contributors this cycle: @sownhere · @LuisMIguelFurlanettoSousa · @ebbsanchez · @Carsonn-Liu · @oichtental · @XDavidT · @feux-follets · @niyongsheng · @pingshunhuangalex · @TyceHerrman.

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