freeing-disk-space SKILL.md skillA
freeing-disk-space from ericpardee/agent-files is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ericpardee/agent-files/freeing-disk-space@git:20260729.6b547ddPins git:20260729.6b547dd in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ericpardee/agent-files
- Path
skills/freeing-disk-space/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260729.6b547dd, committed Jul 29, 2026
- Size
- 3,860 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Use when a Mac is running low on disk space or storage is full - "startup disk almost full", "only X GB left", "free up space", "what is eating my disk", "clean up my Mac", or /freeing-disk-space. macOS only.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Freeing Disk Space (macOS) Measure, then recommend; never guess. Rank findings by measured size and reversibility, gate every deletion behind line-item approval, verify with df. ## Ground truth - The real number is `Avail` from `df -h /System/Volumes/Data`. Finder and About This Mac add purgeable space, so they read tens of GB higher. Quote the df number and say which one you are quoting. - Read-only scanning is pre-authorized. Nothing gets deleted, moved, or shrunk until the user approves specific line items. ## Survey pass Start with a full top-level sweep so nothing named or unnamed escapes: `du -xsm ~/* | sort -rn | head -20` and `du -xsm ~/.[!.]* | sort -rn | head -15`. This is what catches sync folders (Dropbox, `~/Library/CloudStorage`), forgotten archive dirs, and tool dotdirs (`~/.codex ~/.asdf ~/.npm ~/.cache ~/.ollama ~/.lmstudio ~/.docker`). Always use `-x` so du does not cross into mounts. Then drill winners with `du -xsm <dir>/* | sort -rn | head`, always including: …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ericpardee/agent-files/freeing-disk-space@sha256:45dd3016b8b841cfThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260729.6b547dd, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_e4r7bsliyka2csqu)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 29, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (3860 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
ericpardee/agent-files · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_e4r7bsliyka2csqu GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ericpardee/agent-files/freeing-disk-space GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/45dd3016b8b841cfd9647732038d414aa4cc3e0bb8f7ba9d1009a3a18a9764d4
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