/storage — Disk Audit & Dedup Hints

Cross-cutting machine-layer skill. Where /pp watches RAM/CPU and /heart watches daemons, /storage watches where the disk is going.

When to invoke

• Disk space warning (under 50 GB free)
• After a heavy build or worktree-heavy week
• When pp flags storage as a constraint
• Before a git clone of a large repo
• Periodically (weekly or per weekly-recap)

What to check

Signal	Why it matters
Top 10 repos by size	Identifies the heaviest costs
Repos > 5 GB	Often hide nested worktrees / vendored deps / build artifacts
Files > 100 MB tracked in git	Should be LFS or .gitignored
Worktrees (git worktree list)	Each worktree is a full working copy
node_modules / .venv on disk	Cumulative drain across repos
Memory Bus mempalace size	Vector DB can grow large unchecked
Audit log accumulation	memory/_audit/*.jsonl files past 30 days

Quick implementation

# Resolve the latest portfolio audit JSON (daily cron writes a new one)
$auditDir = 'C:\Users\frank\Starlight-Intelligence-System\memory\_audit'
$auditPath = Get-ChildItem -Path $auditDir -Filter 'repo-portfolio-*.json' -File -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue |
    Sort-Object Name -Descending | Select-Object -First 1 | ForEach-Object FullName
if (-not $auditPath) {
    Write-Host 'No repo-portfolio audit found — run tools/audit-repo-portfolio.ps1 first' -ForegroundColor Yellow
    return
}
$audit = Get-Content $auditPath -Raw | ConvertFrom-Json
$auditAge = (Get-Date) - [DateTime]::Parse($audit.generated_at)
"Audit age: $([int]$auditAge.TotalDays) days"

# Top 10 repos by size
"`n=== Top 10 repos by size ==="
$audit.repos | Sort-Object size_mb -Descending | Select-Object -First 10 |
    Format-Table @{N='Repo';E={$_.name}}, @{N='Size GB';E={[math]::Round($_.size_mb/1024, 1)}}, class, days_since -AutoSize

# Free disk space on C:
"`n=== Free space ==="
$drive = Get-CimInstance Win32_LogicalDisk -Filter "DeviceID='C:'"
"C:\ Free: $([math]::Round($drive.FreeSpace/1GB, 1)) GB / $([math]::Round($drive.Size/1GB, 1)) GB"

# Oversized non-git files (>100MB) in top repo
"`n=== Files >100MB in top repo ==="
$top = ($audit.repos | Sort-Object size_mb -Descending | Select-Object -First 1).path
if (Test-Path $top) {
    Get-ChildItem $top -Recurse -File -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue |
        Where-Object { $_.Length -gt 100MB -and $_.FullName -notmatch '\.git\\' } |
        Sort-Object Length -Descending |
        Select-Object -First 5 |
        Format-Table @{N='Size MB';E={[math]::Round($_.Length/1MB,0)}}, FullName -AutoSize
}

# Audit log accumulation
"`n=== Audit log files >30 days old ==="
$auditDir = 'C:\Users\frank\Starlight-Intelligence-System\memory\_audit'
Get-ChildItem $auditDir -Filter '*.jsonl' -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue |
    Where-Object { (Get-Date) - $_.LastWriteTime -gt (New-TimeSpan -Days 30) } |
    Select-Object Name, @{N='Age days';E={[int]((Get-Date) - $_.LastWriteTime).TotalDays}}, @{N='Size KB';E={[math]::Round($_.Length/1KB,1)}} |
    Format-Table -AutoSize

Refresh the audit

The audit JSON is canonical for repo metadata. If it's >7 days old, refresh:

pwsh tools/audit-repo-portfolio.ps1

Output format

/storage — Disk audit

  Audit age: 6 days (stale > 7d would auto-refresh)
  C:\ Free: 187.4 GB / 953.9 GB

  Top repos:
    1. FrankX        19.2 GB  active   (suspect: worktrees + nested sibling)
    2. Arcanea       9.7 GB   active   (suspect: path-duplicate cluster)
    3. frankx-prod-* ~9.0 GB  active   (4 sibling repos, candidates for dedup)
    4. ...

  Recommended actions:
    - Run /storage --deep on FrankX (memory has known worktree bloat)
    - Archive frankx-prod-* siblings older than 30 days
    - 3 audit log files >30 days old (47 KB) — consider archive

Cross-cutting with /heart and /pp

• /pp = capacity (am I going to run out)
• /heart = process health (is the substrate alive)
• /storage = disk distribution (where did all my disk go)

Invoke as a trio at start of a sprint: /pp && /heart && /storage.

Built on SIP — operational-tier · machine substrate skill