disk-hygiene

disk-hygiene is a skill for Claude Code from terrylica/cc-skills. It costs 34 tokens per session (7,683 once invoked), scanned B, original, MIT.

A macOS storage-cleanup guide for checking disk usage, developer caches, large forgotten files, and Downloads. It also provides task templates for a full audit or cache cleanup.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for auditing disk space, finding old large files, reviewing developer caches, and selecting cleanup actions.
Why use it?
It helps identify what is using storage before you remove anything, including caches and build files that can grow unnoticed.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the devops-tools plugin — 24 skills shipped together , and of cc-skills

Good fit It is for auditing disk space, finding old large files, reviewing developer caches, and selecting cleanup actions.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/terrylica/cc-skills/disk-hygiene
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 terrylica/cc-skills --skill disk-hygiene
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/terrylica/cc-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install devops-tools, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 24 skills.

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 disk-hygiene

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 34 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,683 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 49 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Tool Misuse · line 108
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 110
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 496
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 514
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 108
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 108
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 110
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 110
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 247
    Tool calls are chained to bypass individual safety checks or escalate capabilities beyond what any single tool call would allow.
    Fix: Limit tool chaining depth and validate the output of each tool before passing it to the next. Require explicit user approval for multi-step chains.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 486
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 496
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • high Tool Misuse · line 514
    Tool parameters are crafted to achieve unintended or unsafe behavior. Parameter abuse can bypass intended safety checks (e.g. shell=True, --force, dangerous glob patterns).
    Fix: Validate all tool parameters against an allowlist. Reject dangerous parameter values (shell=True, --force, -rf /) and use safe defaults.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 24
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 107
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium Prompt Injection · line 168
    Large whitespace padding was detected (a block of blank lines or a long run of spaces). This can push injected instructions below or to the right of the visible area so a human reviewer never sees them while the agent still reads them. Manual review of the hidden content is recommended.
    Fix: Remove the large whitespace padding (blank-line blocks or long space runs) and review any content hidden below or to the right of it. Keep skill files compact and reviewable so no instructions can be
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 272
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
  • medium Memory Poisoning · line 393
    Skill attempts to fill the context window with filler content, displacing legitimate instructions and safety constraints. This can degrade agent performance or bypass safety boundaries.
    Fix: Implement context-window management that detects and rejects padding or stuffing attempts. Prioritize system instructions over user-injected content.
  • medium Memory Poisoning · line 395
    Skill attempts to fill the context window with filler content, displacing legitimate instructions and safety constraints. This can degrade agent performance or bypass safety boundaries.
    Fix: Implement context-window management that detects and rejects padding or stuffing attempts. Prioritize system instructions over user-injected content.
  • medium Memory Poisoning · line 396
    Skill attempts to fill the context window with filler content, displacing legitimate instructions and safety constraints. This can degrade agent performance or bypass safety boundaries.
    Fix: Implement context-window management that detects and rejects padding or stuffing attempts. Prioritize system instructions over user-injected content.
  • medium Memory Poisoning · line 397
    Skill attempts to fill the context window with filler content, displacing legitimate instructions and safety constraints. This can degrade agent performance or bypass safety boundaries.
    Fix: Implement context-window management that detects and rejects padding or stuffing attempts. Prioritize system instructions over user-injected content.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00034 $0.07683
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.03841
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.01537
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00768

Measured 10d ago against content hash 822062a524e2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

disk-hygiene scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/cache-audit.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

Recursive force deletemediumDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

| sccache | `~/Library/Caches/Mozilla.sccache/` | 1-3 GB | `rm -rf ~/Library/Caches/Mozilla.sccache` |

Downgraded: this mod is about security review, or the phrase is quoted, so it is likely naming the pattern rather than instructing it.

plugins/devops-tools/skills/disk-hygiene/SKILL.md · 547 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 547 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Disk Hygiene

Audit disk usage, clean developer caches, find forgotten large files, and triage Downloads on macOS.

Self-Evolving Skill: This skill improves through use. If instructions are wrong, parameters drifted, or a workaround was needed — fix this file immediately, don't defer. Only update for real, reproducible issues.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when:

  • User asks about disk space, storage, or cleanup
  • System is running low on free space
  • User wants to find old/forgotten large files
  • User wants to clean developer caches (brew, uv, pip, npm, cargo)
  • User wants to triage their Downloads folder
  • User asks about disk analysis tools (dust, dua, gdu, ncdu)

TodoWrite Task Templates

Template A - Full Disk Audit

1. Run disk overview (df -h /System/Volumes/Data && major directories)
2. Audit developer caches (uv, brew, pip, npm, cargo, rustup, Docker)
3. Scan in-repo build artifacts (Rust target/, .venv, node_modules — often the biggest, see Phase 2.5)
4. Scan for forgotten large files (>50MB, not accessed in 180+ days)
5. Present findings with AskUserQuestion for cleanup choices
6. Execute selected cleanups
7. Report space reclaimed

Template B - Cache Cleanup Only

1. Measure current cache sizes
2. Run safe cache cleanups (brew, uv, pip, npm)
3. Report space reclaimed

Template C - Downloads Triage

1. List Downloads contents with dates and sizes
2. Categorize into groups (media, dev artifacts, personal docs, misc)
3. Present AskUserQuestion multi-select for deletion/move
4. Execute selected actions

Template D - Forgotten File Hunt

1. Scan home directory for large files not accessed in 180+ days
2. Group by location and type (media, ISOs, dev artifacts, documents)
3. Present findings sorted by size
4. Offer cleanup options via AskUserQuestion

Phase 1 - Disk Overview

Get the lay of the land before diving into specifics.

/usr/bin/env bash << 'OVERVIEW_EOF'
echo "=== Disk Overview ==="
# MUST be /System/Volumes/Data, NOT `/`. On APFS (Catalina+) `/` is the SEALED
# READ-ONLY system volume and reports a fixed ~10GB used — it is not your disk.
# Verified 2026-07-31: `df -h /` said "10Gi used, 185Gi avail" on a machine that
# was actually 707GB used and 80% full. Reading `/` will make you conclude there
# is nothing to clean.
df -h /System/Volumes/Data

echo ""
echo "=== Major Directories ==="
du -sh ~/Library/Caches ~/Library/Logs ~/Library/Application\ Support \
  ~/.Trash ~/Downloads ~/Documents ~/Desktop ~/Movies ~/Music ~/Pictures \
  2>/dev/null | sort -rh

echo ""
echo "=== Developer Tool Caches ==="
du -sh ~/.docker ~/.npm ~/.cargo ~/.rustup ~/.local ~/.cache \
  ~/.conda ~/.pyenv ~/.local/share/mise 2>/dev/null | sort -rh
OVERVIEW_EOF

Read the full file on GitHub · 547 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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 · 547 lines · 34 tokens per session scan B 822062a524e2

Subscribe to this mod's changes

disk-hygiene is a skill published in the GitHub repository terrylica/cc-skills (66 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 34 tokens to every session and 7,683 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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