goose-recipe-session-cleanup

goose-recipe-session-cleanup is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from rhtevan/agentfs. It costs 29 tokens per session (4,265 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A cleanup guide for removing old Goose session records from its SQLite database, a local file-based database. It covers desktop, terminal, recipe, and diagnostic sessions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect and delete selected session categories, optionally limited to records from particular dates.
Why use it?
It clears sessions that may no longer appear in the user interface and prevents obsolete records from accumulating indefinitely.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to inspect and delete selected session categories, optionally limited to records from particular dates.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/rhtevan/agentfs/goose-recipe-session-cleanup
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.

Any agent
npx skills add rhtevan/agentfs --skill goose-recipe-session-cleanup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rhtevan/agentfs

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,265 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00029 $0.04265
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.02132
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00853
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00426

Measured 10d ago against content hash f724026e698f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

goose-recipe-session-cleanup 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 10d 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.

skills/goose-recipe-session-cleanup/SKILL.md · 490 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 490 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

goose-recipe-session-cleanup

Identify and remove Goose session records from the sessions database. Covers all four session categories with per-category opt-in and optional date filtering.

Problem

Goose accumulates session records in its SQLite database over time:

  • Recipe sessions from ad-hoc CLI runs are invisible in Desktop UI
  • Terminal sessions from goose term are never shown anywhere
  • Hidden sessions from goose doctor are diagnostic leftovers
  • Desktop sessions from interactive use may become stale over time

Without periodic cleanup, the database grows large and fills with sessions that will never be revisited.

Architecture

Goose stores sessions in two places:

Store Path Purpose
SQLite DB ~/.local/share/goose/sessions/sessions.db All session metadata + messages
projects.json ~/.local/share/goose/projects.json Desktop UI project/session visibility

The DB contains four session categories with distinct characteristics:

Category session_type DB marker name pattern provider_name extension_data
Desktop user recipe_json IS NULL Descriptive, user-assigned Set (e.g. custom_redhat) Full JSON with extensions
Recipe user recipe_json IS NOT NULL Auto-generated from recipe Set Full JSON
Terminal terminal Always "Goose Term Session" None {} (empty)
Hidden hidden Always "/doctor I ran /doctor" None varies

How It Works

The scan queries the SQLite database and groups results into four categories. The user can:

  • Supply a before date to only target old sessions
  • Choose which categories to delete (any combination)
  • Say "clean all sessions" to include every category

Deletion removes sessions, messages, and usage_ledger records.

Parameters

Read the full file on GitHub · 490 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 10d ago First seen · 490 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A f724026e698f

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goose-recipe-session-cleanup is a skill published in the GitHub repository rhtevan/agentfs (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 4,265 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.

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