Privacy

diskdiet, its desktop app, its VS Code extension and its MCP server collect no personal data. Nothing is sent to the diskdiet project or to anyone else: no accounts, analytics, crash reports or tracking.

What diskdiet reads

• The folders of the caches it knows (npm, Yarn, pnpm, Bun, pip, uv, Cargo, Go, Gradle, Maven, Playwright, Cypress, Xcode) and, to find node_modules and target folders, your home folder (or the folders you pass with --projects). It reads file sizes and dates, and the index files of npm's cache to know which entries are old. It does not read your files' contents.
• The list of running processes, to avoid cleaning a cache while its package manager is installing.

What it runs and connects to

diskdiet itself makes no network connections. It runs, on your machine:

• npm config get cache, pnpm store path, go env, uv cache dir to find caches;
• pnpm store prune, uv cache clean and docker … prune when you clean those;
• docker info and docker system df, which talk to your local Docker.

Those tools may contact their own servers as they normally do; diskdiet adds nothing.

The npm package downloads the diskdiet binary from this project's GitHub releases on first use. The desktop app stores its settings in a settings.json file in your user settings folder, and only shows notifications on your machine.

Contact

Questions: open an issue.