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Audit my whole drive every week, flag 380GB to delete — and delete nothing

Creator Matthew Berman describes giving an AI access to his local machine on a standing weekly job: it scans every file, finds deletion candidates totalling about 380GB, and sorts them into low, medium and high risk. The bot operates under one hard rule — it may categorize but must never delete anything itself.

How it works

  1. Connect the bot to his local machine
  2. Weekly scan of every file
  3. Identify deletion candidates totalling about 380GB
  4. Sort them into low, medium and high risk
  5. Hard rule enforced throughout: categorize only, delete nothing

Why it’s worth knowing

The useful trick is the restraint: an agent with delete access is run as a read-only auditor that grades 380GB of clutter by risk.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on youtube.com. See the original ↗

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