clean

clean is a command for coding agents from cwf818/topgauge. It costs 17 tokens per session (616 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A cleanup command for timestamped .bak backup files created by installation and removal scripts. It keeps the newest backup for each supported file and leaves manually named backups alone.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to clean user-level or project-level Claude configuration backups, with an option to remove the plugin's cached state and diagnostic files too.
Why use it?
It prevents old script-generated backups from accumulating while preserving the latest recovery copy.

Command

Installs and runs on its own, but its text points at files inside its plugin — anything it tells you to read at a ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT} path is only there once the plugin is installed. Installing the plugin gets both.

Part of the creditgauge plugin — 4 commands shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/cwf818/topgauge/clean
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cwf818/topgauge

Or install creditgauge, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 4 commands.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for clean

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 17 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 616 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00017 $0.00616
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00308
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00123
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00062

Measured 4d ago against content hash e55094ccafc7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

clean scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 4d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

commands/clean.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

creditgauge :clean

Targets the .bak.YYYYMMDDTHHMMSS files our install/uninstall scripts leave behind:

  • settings.json.bak.<ts>
  • installed_plugins.json.bak.<ts>
  • known_marketplaces.json.bak.<ts>

Keeps the most recent backup per file (sorted lexically — the ISO timestamp is monotonic) and removes the rest. Does not touch user-named backups like settings.json.bak-pre-v0.1.8. Idempotent — if at most one backup exists per file, prints "nothing to clean" and exits 0.

Defaults to user-level (~/.claude/); pass --project for project-level (cwd's .claude/).

--purge-runtime

Pass --purge-runtime to also wipe the plugin's runtime state files.

v0.4.x+ Per-Project Layout: every <projectHash>/ subdirectory under state/ is walked and the following files inside it are removed:

  • cache.json — the on-disk fetch cache (60s TTL)
  • diagnostics.jsonl — the persistent diagnostics log (only exists when CREDITGAUGE_DIAGNOSTICS_ENABLE=1 has been set)
  • *.jsonl — the per-session token-sample files backing the m_acc* / m_sum* module family.

After wiping all runtime files inside a project dir, the now-empty directory itself is removed (via rmdir — fails safely on non-empty dirs). Project dirs that still contain non-runtime files are left in place.

state/upstream-cmd.{sh,txt} and state/config.json are NEVER purged — they're managed by install/uninstall, not by per-tick IO, and wiping them would break future uninstalls.

These files are user-level only — --purge-runtime is ignored under --project (the state dir has no project-level counterpart). Combined usage: clean.sh --purge-runtime --dry-run to preview.

The uninstall slash command (/creditgauge:uninstall) calls this script as its final step (without --purge-runtime), so explicit cleanup of backups is usually unnecessary after a fresh uninstall. --purge-runtime is opt-in because the runtime state contains your diagnostics history — only wipe when you actually want it gone.

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 4d ago First seen · 61 lines · 17 tokens per session scan A e55094ccafc7

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clean is a command published in the GitHub repository cwf818/topgauge (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 616 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.