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How much of your disk do your AI tools take up?

Use Claude Code, Codex or Cursor for a while and the caches, old versions, old conversations and model files start piling up.

If you write code with AI every day, it's worth taking a look at your disk.

Tools like Claude Code, Codex and Cursor leave quite a lot behind: caches, old versions left over after updates, conversation history. If you also run models locally, a single downloaded model file can be several gigabytes. All of it is spread across different folders, and it's easy never to notice.

Why you can't just delete it all

Not all of it is junk. Old conversations may hold things you want to come back to, and a deleted model has to be downloaded again the next time you need it. So cleaning up after AI tools can't work like clearing a browser cache, all in one go.

How Xico Clean handles it

Xico Clean has a section just for AI tools. It finds their caches, old versions, old conversations and model files, lists each kind separately and treats them differently, so you can see at a glance what's safe to clear and what deserves a look before you decide.

As with all its cleaning, the scan runs on your Mac, and nothing is deleted until you've confirmed it.

Xico Clean is free to download and try at mac.xicoai.com.