Installer taskexplorer avec Homebrew Cask

Liens du projet

• Page d'accueil
• Dépôt
• Page du gestionnaire de paquets

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Historique du projet

TaskExplorer was created by Objective-See as an open-source visual process-inspection utility for macOS. Earlier versions enumerated tasks and associated artifacts through a traditional privileged workflow.

Version 3 was a near-complete rewrite based on Apple's Endpoint Security framework. It added live process events, a Swift interface, expanded filtering and export, a system extension, and an optional assistant that can use Apple Intelligence or user-supplied model-provider credentials.

Historique d'adoption

Objective-See distributes TaskExplorer as an open-source macOS application, while Homebrew Cask supplies a package-managed installation route. Legacy releases remain available for older supported macOS generations.

The application is aimed at security practitioners, administrators, developers, and advanced Mac users who need a richer live process view than the standard Activity Monitor provides.

Modes d'utilisation

After installation in `/Applications`, users approve the TaskExplorer system extension and grant it Full Disk Access. The interface can then inspect live processes, signatures, libraries, open files, network connections, and optional VirusTotal results.

TaskExplorer supports text and token filters, JSON export, and a command-line interface inside the application bundle. VirusTotal, Anthropic, and OpenAI keys are optional and are stored securely in the macOS Keychain.

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TaskExplorer combines process inspection with code-signing status, loaded-library enumeration, open files, network connections, hashes, and optional VirusTotal lookups, making it useful for incident response and malware triage.

Its command-line mode emits JSON and can enumerate or scan tasks programmatically. Version 3's system extension removes the earlier need to run command-line inspection as root after the extension has been installed and approved.

Chronologie

• 2022: The official release history records continued modernization of the version 2 code line.
• 2026: Version 3 is released as a near-complete Endpoint Security-based rewrite.

Related projects

• TaskExplorer belongs to Objective-See's collection of open-source macOS security utilities.
• VirusTotal integration can check executable hashes for known-malware detections; the optional assistant can instead use Apple Intelligence, Anthropic, or OpenAI.

Sources

• https://github.com/objective-see/TaskExplorer
• https://github.com/objective-see/TaskExplorer/releases
• https://objective-see.org/products/taskexplorer.html