LPT: How to quickly free up disk space on a laptop
ried tracking down what was eating my drive by hand. I ran du -sh * in my terminal, opened folder after folder trying to guess what was safe to kill, and went down rabbit holes on YouTube to check if deleting a folder would brick my system. That usually took me two hours, only to free up a sad 2GB. Finally, I found a much better way to deal with it.
You need two things.
1. a clean tool from GitHub that scans storage: github.com/KKKKhazix/khazix-skills/tree/main/stor…
2. an AI agent that lets you add custom skills. I used Workbuddy since it comes with free models like DeepSeek. The heavy lifting comes from the skill itself, so using a tool where you don't pay for extra tokens or credits makes the most sense.
Gave the link to it and told it to install it as a skill. It ran a security check first, and once it looked clean, it set up the files on my machine.
Then I gave it this prompt: "Scan my disk to find the biggest folders and files eating up space, and give me cleanup advice. Rule number one: do not touch or modify anything in my Desktop or Downloads folders. Rule number two: before running any delete action, you must ask me and get my clear approval for every single item."
When it finished the scan, it gave me a clean HTML report. The report broke everything down into 3 buckets: Junk that is safe to remove, files you should review before touching, and system files you must never delete.
I rebooted my apps and everything ran fine with zero bugs. If you worry about killing important files, just make sure the bot asks you before it removes anything. It worked way better than generic cleaning tools that never reach those deep cache folders.
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LPT: How to quickly free up disk space on a laptop ried tracking down what was eating my drive by hand. I ran du -sh * in my terminal, opened folder after folder trying to guess what was safe to kill, and went down rabbit holes on YouTube to check if deleting a folder would brick my system. That usually took me two hours, only to free up a sad 2GB. Finally, I found a much better way to deal with it. You need two things. 1. a clean tool from GitHub that scans storage: github.com/KKKKhazix/khazix-skills/tree/main/stor… 2. an AI agent that lets you add custom skills. I used Workbuddy since it comes with free models like DeepSeek. The heavy lifting comes from the skill itself, so using a tool where you don't pay for extra tokens or credits makes the most sense. Gave the link to it and told it to install it as a skill. It ran a security check first, and once it looked clean, it set up the files on my machine. Then I gave it this prompt: "Scan my disk to find the biggest folders and files eating up space, and give me cleanup advice. Rule number one: do not touch or modify anything in my Desktop or Downloads folders. Rule number two: before running any delete action, you must ask me and get my clear approval for every single item." When it finished the scan, it gave me a clean HTML report. The report broke everything down into 3 buckets: Junk that is safe to remove, files you should review before touching, and system files you must never delete. I rebooted my apps and everything ran fine with zero bugs. If you worry about killing important files, just make sure the bot asks you before it removes anything. It worked way better than generic cleaning tools that never reach those deep cache folders.