tbillington/kondo

Health v2 · maintenance only

Adoption not part of the score

2384 stars · 67 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Kondo is a Rust-based tool that recursively scans directories for known project structures (20+ types like Cargo, Node, Unity, Gradle) and deletes dependency folders and build artifacts to reclaim disk space. It ships as both a CLI and a GUI, showing how much space can be saved before cleaning.

Use cases

• free up disk space taken by node_modules and target folders
• clean build artifacts before backing up projects
• reclaim space from old projects I tried out
• find which projects are wasting gigabytes of disk space
• bulk delete dependency folders across many repositories
• clean unity and unreal engine project caches

When to choose

• you accumulate many projects with large dependency and build directories
• you want a safe, prompted alternative to manually rm -rf'ing build folders
• you work across multiple languages and ecosystems and want one cleanup tool

When to avoid

• you need to clean project types Kondo doesn't recognize
• you want automated scheduled cleanup without review - it's essentially rm -rf with a prompt
• you need granular control over which individual files are deleted within a project

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

cli gui file-system developer-tools developer-tools files cross-platform windows cli cross-platform disk-cleanup build-artifacts dependency-cleanup disk-space project-cleaner command-line linux macos

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