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Safely reclaim disk space on a Mac — the trustworthy, transparent, reversible alternative to CleanMyMac and similar tools. Use whenever the user says their Mac disk or storage is full or nearly full, gets a "startup disk almost full" / low-storage warning, asks to free up space, clean/clear caches, remove junk, delete leftover files from apps they uninstalled, or find what's eating their disk — in any language (e.g. English "my mac is out of space", "free up disk", "clear caches", "what's taking up my storage"; Georgian "ქეში გაასუფთავე", "მეხსიერება გადამევსო", "ადგილი აღარ მაქვს"). Surveys usage first, auto-clears only pure caches, moves anything riskier to the Trash (restorable), asks before anything expensive, logs every deletion, and reports what was freed. Do NOT use for cloud storage, RAM/memory-pressure, or a single named app's own in-app cache button.
JubaKitiashvili/mac-storage-cleaner · ★ 6 · AI & Automation · score 79
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# Mac Storage Cleaner Free disk space the way a careful engineer would, and earn the trust one-click cleaners lose: **measure first, delete only what provably regenerates, make anything riskier reversible, ask before anything expensive, log every action, and report honestly.** The differentiator over CleanMyMac-style tools is judgment and transparency — the user sees what will go and why, and can undo it. Scripts live in `scripts/`; the full tiered inventory, exact reclaim commands, and gotchas are in `references/cache-catalog.md`. Read the catalog whenever you hit something a script didn't classify or you need the precise command. ## Core principles - **Safe tier → delete outright** (space back immediately). These are pure caches; the only cost is a slower next build/install. - **Everything else → Trash, not `rm`.** Ask-tier items, app leftovers, big files — move them to the Trash with `trash-items.sh` so the user can restore them. Reversibility is the whole point; never hard-delete a user's data. - **When unsure, demote a tier.** A slower rebuild is trivial; deleting a license, an unpushable Xcode archive, or someone's only local backup is not. - **Every destructive run is logged** to `~/Library/Logs/mac-storage-cleaner/operations.log` — deletions refuse to run unlogged (exit 3) unless the log directory is writable, or `MSC_ALLOW_UNLOGGED=1` explicitly opts into an unlogged run. ## What this skill does to your disk (declared behavior) This section is a com