PSA: AI Terminal bots can query macOS Spotlight using mdfind

For anyone using Claude Code or OpenClaw, try querying Spotlight with Apple's own Terminal tool `mdfind.`
PSA: AI Terminal bots can query macOS Spotlight using mdfind

From Cheng Lou on X:

Public service announcement for all of you running Claude Code/Clawd: macOS’ Spotlight comes as a terminal tool, mdfind, that can fuzzy & exact query your entire computer in real time. Ask your bot to use it!

No RAG, no prescriptive structure, no external tool, super optimized

Super useful if you’re using something like OpenClaw (renamed from Clawd) for advanced AI access to your Mac.

Plus, you can run shortcuts from the command line as well.

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