disk-doctor

About

CleanMyMac doesn't know what a Claude VM is. OnyX doesn't know you have 28 `node_modules` across worktrees. DaisyDisk counts them as "personal documents." The generic cleaners predate the agent era. Disk Doctor is what I built after losing a Monday morning to a Mac that wouldn't stop crashing — 7 macOS diagnostic reports in five days, Claude Desktop dying mid-task, 64 MB of free RAM on a 16 GB machine. The root cause was 84 GB of regenerable agent-era cruft I had no idea was there, plus a 90-server MCP plugin sprawl that filled the rest of my RAM. Once I cleaned it up by hand with Claude in plan mode, I realised every vibe coder has this problem. So I built the tool. **What it knows about** (15 cache categories, all hard-coded, no user globs): - npm package cache + `node_modules` across all your projects (worktrees included) - Claude Code agent VM disk image - opencode session snapshots, Codex archived sessions - Ollama local models, Xcode DerivedData + iOS Simulators - Descript / Notion / Slack / Discord / Stremio electron partitions - Chromium-flavor browser caches (Chrome / Brave / Dia) - pip cache, Playwright binaries, Homebrew downloads, user logs, Trash Two tabs. **Disk** scans, sorts results into three tiers (Safe / Confirm / Your call), one-click cleans the safe ones with progress + a history record. **Memory** shows true macOS memory pressure (the kernel-level signal, not the misleading "% used"), groups running processes by their parent `.app` so "Browser Helper × 4" attributes correctly to Dia or Claude, and each row has a hover info-dot that tells you in plain English whether it's safe to quit. System processes are classified `DoNotKill` and the ✕ button is disabled — no foot-guns. Built in a single Monday afternoon using Tauri 2 + Rust + React. **The release `.dmg` is 3.1 MB** — about 1/35th of a comparable Electron app, which felt important given the whole point is to clean up Electron's mess. No telemetry. No paywall. No login. The app refuses to clean a category if its owning app is running. Deletions for Tier 2+ go through the system Trash, not silent `rm -rf`. Free + open source. Pull requests for new cache categories are welcome — the catalog is one Rust file.