khendzel Janitor Swipe — interactive skill triage
A bash TUI that puts every installed skill into a sorted deck and lets the user swipe keep / delete / skip on each card.
Overview
The deck is sorted "most likely waste first" — heavy, never-used skills appear at the top, so most users hit ← delete a few times and quit before reviewing the whole list. The swipe is scope-aware and honest about what it can delete: user-scope skills are actually removed (after confirmation), plugin skills are flagged for review instead.
Prerequisites
- Claude Code with the skills-janitor plugin installed (provides
scripts/swipe.shandswipe-build-deck.sh) - bash 3.2+ (the stock macOS bash works; no external dependencies)
- An interactive terminal at least 50 columns x 22 rows — the TUI reads single keypresses
Instructions
Step 1: Tell the user to run it via !
Inside Claude Code, the Bash tool's stdin is non-interactive, so the keypress reader can't work. The user must invoke it via the ! prefix so the command runs in their actual shell:
!bash ~/.claude/skills/skills-janitor/scripts/swipe.sh
When the user asks for /janitor-swipe, tell them to run that command in their terminal. Do NOT try to run it yourself via the Bash tool — it will error with "needs an interactive terminal".
Step 2: Explain the card and controls
Each card shows:
- Skill name + position in deck (e.g.
[3 / 47]) - Context cost split:
X always · Y on trigger(description tokens are permanent; body loads only when the skill fires) - Usage count and last invoked date
- Scope (
user,project,plugin · <plugin-name>, etc.) - 3-line truncated description
- Verdict label (e.g. "Unused + heavy on trigger — prime delete candidate")
Controls:
←/h/d— stage for delete→/l/k— keep↓/j/s/ space — skipu— undo (back up one card, clear its decision)i— inspect (show full SKILL.md description)q/ Esc — quit (still shows summary for decisions made so far)
Step 3: Scope-aware deletion (the critical correctness point)
| Scope | What happens on swipe left |
|---|---|
user, project, codex-user, codex-project |
Path is staged for rm -rf (or unlink if symlink) |
plugin, plugin-source |
NOT deleted — flagged under "Plugins to review" at the apply screen, with a hint to run /plugin uninstall <plugin> if enough skills from that plugin were swiped |
mcp-user, mcp-project (v1.7) |
Server entry is removed from its config file (~/.claude.json / .mcp.json) with a timestamped .bak backup — reversible |
mcp-plugin |
NOT edited — flagged for plugin review like plugin skills |
MCP server cards show real call counts from session transcripts instead of token guesses (schemas live server-side). An unused connected server ranks high — its tool schemas load into context for nothing.
Output
After the last card (or q), an apply screen shows keep/skip/delete counts, the deletion list with paths, the "frees X always-loaded + Y on-trigger" token summary, the plugin review breakdown, and a prompt:
y— apply deletions immediately (logged to~/.skills-janitor/log.jsonlwith path and frontmatter snapshot)N— cancelsave— write decisions to~/.skills-janitor/swipe-<timestamp>.jsonfor later application viaswipe.sh --apply <file>
Error Handling
Error: "Swipe needs an interactive terminal" Solution: The command was run through the Bash tool. Have the user run it with the
!prefix in their own terminal.Error: "Swipe needs at least 50 columns / 22 rows" Solution: The terminal window is too small — resize and retry.
Error: No skills to swipe Solution: Nothing is installed (exits 0 with a message) — suggest
/janitor-discoverto find skills.Error: The user wants a non-interactive view instead Solution: Point them at
/janitor-reportor/janitor-valuefor the same data in list form.
Edge cases handled by the script: Ctrl-C mid-swipe restores the terminal; symlinks are unlinked, never followed; old saved decks without the v1.5 token-split fields still load.
Examples
Example 1: Standard triage
Input: "/janitor-swipe" or "help me clean up my skills interactively"
Output: Explain the flow in two sentences, then give the exact command to run: !bash ~/.claude/skills/skills-janitor/scripts/swipe.sh — and offer to review the results afterwards.
Example 2: Resume saved decisions
Input: "I saved my swipe decisions yesterday — apply them."
Output: !bash ~/.claude/skills/skills-janitor/scripts/swipe.sh --apply ~/.skills-janitor/swipe-<timestamp>.json (list the files in ~/.skills-janitor/ to find the right one).
Resources
- TUI script (plugin-relative):
{baseDir}/../../scripts/swipe.sh; deck builder:{baseDir}/../../scripts/swipe-build-deck.sh - Deletion log:
~/.skills-janitor/log.jsonl /janitor-report— same data as a non-interactive list/janitor-value— the token + usage data underneath the swipe deck/janitor-fix --prune— automated broken-symlink cleanup, no interactive review