outthislife/brooklyn-skills · Archived

free-disk-space

>- Safely reclaim disk space on macOS without touching personal or agent data. Use when the user asks to free disk space, clear caches, or investigate a nearly full Mac.

First seen Aug 10, 2026

Installation

$ npx skills add outthislife/brooklyn-skills --skill free-disk-space

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Repository health

Stars 185
License LICENSE
Default branch main
Open issues 0
Status Archived

Package contents

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  • skill md SKILL.md 1,735 B
  • docs SUMMARY.md 189 B

History

  1. First seen on skills.sh
  2. First recorded snapshot · 6 installs

SKILL.md

Free Disk Space

Investigate first. Delete only regenerable data the user has authorized.

Safety

  • Never inspect, delete, or modify the data of the IDE or agent you're running

inside — its application-support dir, caches, globalStorage, databases, extensions, or logs — unless the user explicitly names it as a cleanup target. On macOS that lives under ~/Library/Application Support/<app>/ (e.g. .../Cursor/).

  • Never delete browser history, extensions, cookies, credentials, local

storage, IndexedDB, bookmarks, passwords, or user-created files.

  • Ask before destructive cleanup such as deleting Docker images, containers,

volumes, or virtual disks.

Workflow

  1. Record current usage from the macOS data volume:

``bash df -h /System/Volumes/Data ``

  1. Find the largest consumers before deleting anything. Use du, package

manager diagnostics, and application-specific storage commands. Do not descend into protected agent/IDE data.

  1. Explain what is large, whether it is regenerable, and the expected impact.
  2. Clean only safe targets:

- contents of ~/Library/Caches/ - unused package-manager cache entries, such as pnpm store prune - known browser model/GPU caches, never browser profile data

  1. For sparse files such as Docker's virtual disk, report actual disk use from

du, not apparent size from ls.

  1. Record usage again and report space freed.

Do not represent the sealed / system volume as the Mac's usable data-volume capacity.