The repository carried 22 abandoned agent worktrees under
.claude/worktrees/, left behind by past agent runs. They are
gitignored, so they never reached a commit, but they stayed on disk
and every unqualified repository-wide grep or find walked all 22
copies of the source tree.
Measured before: 48,005 files under .claude/worktrees/, against 856
tracked in the repository. An unqualified search walked 56 times more
files than the repository contains.
The verification gate confirmed both safety conditions before removal:
all 22 worktree-agent-* branch tips were already ancestors of main, and
all 22 worktrees were clean (unmerged: 0, dirty: 0).
Removal steps:
- git worktree remove for each of the 22 worktrees (no rm -rf, so the
registrations in .git/worktrees/ stay consistent)
- git branch -d for each worktree-agent-* branch (lowercase -d, so an
unmerged branch would block deletion instead of being force-deleted)
- git worktree prune to clear administrative entries
Measured after: 0 files under .claude/worktrees/, .claude/ shrank from
4.7 GB to 72 KB. The 856 tracked files are unchanged. HEAD is unchanged
from before the removals. npm run ci exits 0.
This ticket changes no tracked source file. The diff is this ticket
file and the README row, because the work is entirely in gitignored
paths and local branch refs.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ehoandClaude Sonnet 5
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