[kixelated]

Problem

Parallel agent builds filled the desktop root disk on 2026-11-04, down to 244 MB and then to 5-14 GB. Managed mbx targets were about 430 GiB, almost all on ~/worktrees/moq/t3-* checkouts. Cleaning targets idle for more than six hours freed about 150 GiB. Only 2 of 742 T3 worktrees were at a merged pull-request head, and the cleaner did not scan ~/worktrees or run on its own.

Approach

The implementation is in kixelated/dotfiles#41. The dotfiles cleaner now scans ~/worktrees and an hourly timer reclaims a checkout when its owner is finished:

• a T3 thread whose runs are terminal and whose session is stopped or absent, or a thread that is archived or deleted
• a quest checkout whose phase is released and whose supervised runs are empty
• a Claude Code .claude/worktrees checkout that has a project transcript

A live session, a non-terminal run, an unknown t3-* path, a database or registry error, or a process in the checkout or its target keeps both. A finished dirty checkout stays, and only its managed target is removed. Idle time is not a signal. Closed pull-request heads count as abandoned work. Branches are not deleted. /tmp test scratch is not deleted by age. mbx target.keep is unchanged; that retention is kixelated/dotfiles#36.

This pull request rewrites the quest to what remains: install the cleaner on the desktop and record the root disk's free space over a busy day. It waits on the maintainer to merge and install kixelated/dotfiles#41. An earlier head deleted the quest; CodeRabbit pointed out that its Goal was not met yet.

Impact

Public API: none. Wire: none.

Read-only classification on 2026-11-05, using the new gate and an mbx snapshot from the same day. Nothing was deleted.

• Checkouts under ~/worktrees/* and ~/work/*: 873 finished, 15 busy, 295 untracked. Finished paths held about 76.6 GiB of managed targets. Busy paths held about 3.6 GiB, including ~/worktrees/moq/t3-cced8ddf (1.2 GiB, run in progress) and ~/worktrees/moq.pro/t3-00f61769 (2.4 GiB, run in progress).
• Largest finished managed targets: t3-fb8bc7d8 35.5 GiB, t3-384cf58d 12.8 GiB, t3-762e4a05 12.7 GiB, t3-e9c7666c 11.4 GiB.
• Claude checkouts: 33 of 279 had a transcript, and those had no managed-target bytes. agent-a42ff81308526f267 (5.10 GiB) has no transcript, so it stays unless git can prove completion.
• Root disk: 210G free of 1.9T. /tmp is a separate disk with 627G free. /tmp/moq-test-1000 was about 78G of failed-test evidence and is not swept.

The hourly timer has not run on this host. This change does not install over the live dotfiles. The 76.6 GiB figure is the managed-target upper bound the gate would allow. The cleaner still keeps a dirty tree and anything a process has open. Action-cache attribution overlaps across checkouts and is not included.

Alternatives

Sending T3 checkouts through quest worktree would give one supervisor, but T3 owns ~/worktrees and recreates a missing worktree. Quest only supervises the .worktrees/ checkouts it creates.

Reclaiming on idle time, or on T3's one-day settled-worktree policy, would remove a checkout whose owner is between turns and would leave the same-day targets until tomorrow.

Follow-ups

• Merge or install kixelated/dotfiles#41 before the timer can reclaim the finished targets. Do not mass-delete them from an agent session.
• kixelated/dotfiles#36 should still land so a target whose checkout is already gone can be collected by mbx.
• Claude checkouts that have no project transcript keep their targets until a merged or closed pull request covers the commit.

Validation

just ci on this head (33f6d9234ceb7b6084f8861b4ac5f7ff6576fd10) passed quest, markdown, biome, shell, toml, nix, and justfile checks. test gh failed: sh/rs/test-lints.test.py test_fail_fast_environment_reaches_nextest, 18 failures, because nextest's output no longer contains tests were not run due to test failure or the expected 2 failed count. git diff origin/main -- sh/rs/test-lints.test.py sh/gh is empty, so the failing file is the base branch's file. I did not check out origin/main in a second worktree. No open pull request fixes that test. Follow-up: update the fail-fast assertion to the current nextest message. This quest does not change that harness.

Review

• Latest: fc00284e63e7f1f4505a2cc1fd63200ee9ba6010 adds only a one-line wording fix answering Pullfrog's last thread; skipped as trivial by the coordinator (Claude Opus 5.5).

Codex, gpt-6.1-sol, medium effort, round 1 reviewed head 3c585739e499d808a86d2d05cc2e20ee5d6b588c: zero findings.

Choices made without asking

• Extend the dotfiles cleaner instead of routing T3 through quest worktree.
• Hourly timer, not a 15-minute timer and not idle-time reclaim.
• Finished means a terminal T3 run with a stopped or absent session, an archived or deleted T3 thread, a released quest checkout with no runs, or a Claude project transcript.
• A finished dirty checkout keeps the git checkout and drops only the managed target.
• A closed pull-request head completes that head's history.
• Do not age-sweep /tmp and do not change mbx target.keep in this quest.

(Written by Grok 4.7 with high effort; updated by Claude Opus 5.5)

[pullfrog]

✅ No new issues found.

Reviewed changes

• Quest deleted — quest/m0/agent-disk-budget.md (56 lines) is removed now that the cleaner work lives in kixelated/dotfiles#41, which matches how completed quests leave the tree (e.g. f576460 removed quest/m0/kio-waiter-records.md the same way).
• Milestone index updated — its ## Required entry is dropped from quest/m0/README.md, leaving no dangling link or stale reference anywhere in the tree (.git/config aside).

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[coderabbitai]

Walkthrough

The PR removes the disk-budget requirement from the Required list and deletes the brief that described reclaiming targets from finished agent checkouts.

Merge Risk: Low · up to 33f6d

The change removes tracking for desktop cleanup before its stated completion criteria are demonstrated. Restore the quest or supply the required results; the documentation-only change does not itself alter cleanup behavior.

Pre-merge checks: 4

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title "Agent build output can't fill the desktop's disk" describes the problem the PR addresses: parallel agent builds filled the root disk. The changeset itself only removes the quest document an…
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Description check		The description directly explains the deleted disk-budget quest and its README link. It also provides the related external implementation, rationale, impact, and validation context.

Full details: Title check

Explanation

The title "Agent build output can't fill the desktop's disk" describes the problem the PR addresses: parallel agent builds filled the root disk. The changeset itself only removes the quest document and its README link, so the title describes the motivating issue rather than the file change. It is related to the PR's stated purpose, but the diff is a deletion of a planning document, not the cleanup implementation (which lives in another repository).

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Actionable comments posted: 1

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Review comments at @quest/m0/README.md:
- Line 36: Restore the Required entry for “Agent build output can't fill the
desktop's disk” in the quest list and restore its linked agent-disk-budget brief
so the entry resolves and remains open until the stated completion conditions
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[pullfrog]

ℹ️ No critical issues — the quest restoration is sound; one instruction is left unfinished inline.

Reviewed changes

• Quest restored and rescoped — quest/m0/agent-disk-budget.md is rewritten in place instead of deleted: [S] → [XS], Goal narrowed to "the hourly cleaner from kixelated/dotfiles#41 runs on the desktop and a PR records the root disk's free space over a busy day", and the 2026-11-04 measurement list replaced by a short Plan that points at this PR for the design and the 2026-11-05 classification.
• Milestone index restored — quest/m0/README.md is back to its main state, so the ## Required entry resolves again and the earlier missing-entry finding is settled.

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[kixelated]

Automated review by review (OpenAI)

Reviewed head: 3c585739e499d808a86d2d05cc2e20ee5d6b588c
Base: 5c3a8c02a6f6a7df5fa26c94c6637da4c153d143

No new actionable findings. Compared the current one-file documentation diff with the base and the previously reviewed 33f6d9234ceb7b6084f8861b4ac5f7ff6576fd10 head. The earlier premature-completion finding is addressed: the Required link and quest are restored, with installation, observed reclamation without touching live checkouts, and busy-day free-space evidence still outstanding.

Direction: the narrowed tracking quest is appropriate. Keep it open until that evidence is recorded; the linked dotfiles PR is still open. The latest timer-wording comment does not change this assessment.

Verification limits: GitHub-only static review; no local commands or desktop verification. The exact-head Quest check passed; Check was still running. This does not validate the cleaner implementation or establish that it is installed.

[kixelated]

Automated review by review (OpenAI)

Reviewed head: fc00284e63e7f1f4505a2cc1fd63200ee9ba6010 against base 5c3a8c02a6f6a7df5fa26c94c6637da4c153d143 and my previous review at 3c585739e499d808a86d2d05cc2e20ee5d6b588c.

No new actionable findings. The only incremental change clarifies that the timer's last run must postdate installation, addressing the remaining wording comment. Direction remains sound: retain the quest until desktop reclamation and busy-day free-space evidence are recorded.

Verification limits: GitHub-only static review; no local tests or desktop validation. Exact-head Quest passed; Check was still running.