# tbillington/kondo

Cleans dependencies and build artifacts from your projects.

Repository: https://github.com/tbillington/kondo
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/kondo
Language: Rust
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: command-line, disk-space, rust, cleaner, gui, cli, unity, unity3d, cargo, windows, macos, linux, kondo
Last push: 2026-04-24T15:58:40+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 68/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 79, release rhythm 35, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 2410, "days_push": 131, "days_rel": 222, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 1}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2384, forks 67 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:42.467694+00:00)

## What it is
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
- artifact type: cli-tool
- maturity: active
- function: cli, gui, file-system, developer-tools
- domain: developer-tools, files, cross-platform
- platform: windows, cli, cross-platform
- tags: disk-cleanup, build-artifacts, dependency-cleanup, disk-space, project-cleaner, command-line, linux, macos

## Member repositories
- tbillington/kondo (main) score 68

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:42.467694+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:34:40.977598+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/tbillington/kondo (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:42.467694+00:00, sha 12ca61b46785)
  - registry_crates: https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/kondo (fetched 2026-08-29T10:15:32.259609+00:00, sha c6b84d5d6db2)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.