Session Cleanup

SkillMonitoring & ops

Identify stale and empty Claude Code sessions in the Agent Monitor and explain the cleanup endpoint (POST /api/settings/cleanup), always showing the exact list of what WOULD be removed before anything is deleted. Cleanup permanently deletes data, so this skill previews first and requires explicit user confirmation. Use when tidying the monitoring database.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the Session Cleanup skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by hoangsonww/claude-code-agent-monitor in plugins/ccam-sessions/skills/session-cleanup/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Find prune-worthy sessions and explain cleanup — preview first, delete only on explicit confirmation.

Input

The user provides: $ARGUMENTS

  • Empty / preview → only show what would be removed (the safe default).
  • confirm → the user has reviewed the preview and explicitly authorizes deletion.
  • An optional staleness threshold (e.g. older than 7d) for what counts as stale.

Data Sources

EndpointReturns
GET /api/sessions?limit=Nsession list: id, status, model, cwd, started_at, ended_at, cost, metadata (turn_count, total_turn_duration_ms)
GET /api/statstotals: total_sessions, active_sessions, total_events, events_today, sessions_by_status, agents_by_status
POST /api/settings/cleanupruns the cleanup routine and returns what was removed — DESTRUCTIVE, only after confirmation

Report Sections

1. Baseline

GET /api/stats — record total_sessions, sessions_by_status, total_events. This is the before-state to compare against.

2. Identify candidates

GET /api/sessions?limit=1000. Flag sessions that are:

  • Empty — zero events and turn_count 0 / null and cost 0 (started but never did anything).
  • Stale activestatus active/working but last activity older than the threshold (default 24h), i.e. never cleanly stopped.
  • Truncated — no ended_at and no recent events.

3. Preview table (ALWAYS shown)

List every candidate with the reason it qualifies. State the total count and confirm that nothing has been deleted yet.

4. Explain the endpoint

Describe POST /api/settings/cleanup: it prunes empty / orphaned sessions and their dangling events server-side and returns a summary of removed rows. Make clear this is permanent and not reversible from the dashboard.

5. Execute only on confirmation

If — and only if — $ARGUMENTS is confirm (or the user has explicitly approved this run), call POST /api/settings/cleanup, then re-read /api/stats and report the before → after delta. Otherwise stop after the preview and tell the user to re-run with confirm.

Output

A preview Markdown table: id (short) | status | reason | cwd basename | started_at | cost, then a one-line count and the explicit "nothing deleted — re-run with confirm to proceed" notice. On a confirmed run, add a before → after summary using ▲/▼ on the counts. Currency as USD to 4 decimal places.

Safety

  • This is the ONLY skill in the plugin that mutates data, and only via the one documented endpoint.
  • NEVER call POST /api/settings/cleanup without an explicit confirm from the user in this turn — previewing is the default.
  • Never widen scope to POST /api/settings/clear-data or any other destructive endpoint; cleanup of stale/empty sessions only.
  • If the dashboard is unreachable, tell the user to start it with npm start from the repo root.

Signals

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Sep 2026
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Catalog kind
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Gateway key
session-cleanup
Source
github.com/hoangsonww/claude-code-agent-monitor