cc-cleaner
The cache cleaner for the AI Coding era.
cc = Claude Code / Cursor / Copilot / Coding Cache
In the AI Coding era, your disk fills up 10x faster—rapid project iteration, massive conversation logs, exploding package caches. cc-cleaner knows exactly what to clean.
Install
curl -sSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/elexingyu/cc-cleaner/master/install.sh | bash
Other installation methods
pipx install cc-cleaner # pipx
uv tool install cc-cleaner # uv
pip install cc-cleaner # pip
Usage
cc-cleaner status # See what's eating your disk
cc-cleaner clean # Interactive mode (select what to clean)
cc-cleaner clean all # Clean all safe caches
cc-cleaner clean claude # Clean specific tool
cc-cleaner clean all -n # Dry run (preview only)
Interactive mode (just run cc-cleaner clean):
- Use ↑/↓ to navigate
- Space to toggle selection
sfor safe items only,afor all,nfor none- Enter to confirm,
qto cancel
Example output:
$ cc-cleaner status
Development Cache Status
┏━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━┳━━━━━━━━━━┓
┃ Cleaner ┃ Description ┃ Size ┃ Risk ┃
┡━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━╇━━━━━━━━━━┩
│ uv │ uv Python package cache │ 5.9 GB │ Safe │
│ npm │ npm package cache │ 1.2 GB │ Safe │
│ claude │ Claude Code logs & telemetry │ 299.6 MB │ Safe │
│ cargo │ Cargo registry cache │ 102.5 MB │ Safe │
└───────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────┴──────────┘
Total cleanable: 7.5 GB
Supported Cleaners (22 total)
| Category | Tools |
|---|---|
| AI Coding | Claude Code |
| AI/ML Models | huggingface, pytorch, whisper, ollama |
| JavaScript | npm, yarn, pnpm, bun, nvm |
| Python | pip, uv, virtualenv |
| Browser | browser-cache (Chrome/Safari/Firefox), playwright, browser-tools (Puppeteer/Selenium) |
| Others | cargo, go, gradle, cocoapods, homebrew, docker |
Risk Levels
| Level | Cleaned By Default | Examples |
|---|---|---|
| Safe | Yes | Download caches, logs, telemetry |
| Moderate | --force |
Conversation transcripts, shared stores |
| Dangerous | --force |
Docker system prune |
Contributing
PRs welcome for Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Windsurf, and other AI coding tools!
License
MIT
1 maintainer
Metadata
1 maintainer
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