Uninstall

Removing ownpaas takes five steps. Steps 3 to 5 delete your labs and cannot be undone.

1. Free the licence

If you have a licence, open Settings › Licence and choose Deactivate, so the activation can be used on another Mac.

2. Stop the engine

Settings › Engine › Stop. This also removes the LaunchAgent, so the engine does not start again at login. Then quit the app.

Check that nothing is left running:

launchctl print gui/$(id -u)/com.ownpaas.engine   # should say: could not find service
pgrep -fl ownpaas

3. Delete the app and the lab

Move the app from Applications to the Bin, then delete the lab and the logs:

rm -rf ~/Library/Application\ Support/ownpaas
rm -rf ~/Library/Logs/ownpaas

This deletes every VM disk, checkpoint and OS image of the lab.

4. Remove the Keychain items

Open Keychain Access, search for com.ownpaas, and delete the items you find. Or in a terminal, repeated until it reports that nothing was found:

security delete-generic-password -s com.ownpaas.context

If you trusted the lab’s certificate authority (for HTTPS in the lab), delete that certificate from the login keychain too.

5. Remove the agent entries and the DNS resolver

• Claude Code: claude mcp remove ownpaas --scope user
• Cursor: delete the ownpaas entry from ~/.cursor/mcp.json
• Codex: delete the [mcp_servers.ownpaas] table from ~/.codex/config.toml
• Claude Desktop: delete mcpServers.ownpaas from ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

If you used “resolve on this Mac” for a lab DNS zone, delete its file in /etc/resolver/ (needs sudo).

The backups the app made of these files (*.ownpaas-backup-*) can go too.

What stays in your cloud account

Uninstalling the app does not touch your cloud account. Gateways, clusters and servers you created there keep running and keep costing money. Delete them in the app before uninstalling, or afterwards in your cloud provider’s console.