Clean up

Close or remove many tabs, worktrees and workers at once, with a safety check for each.

Clean up worktrees and workers

1. Open the command palette and run Clean up worktrees and workers…. Or open a project's menu and pick Clean up…, or a coordinator's menu and pick Clean up workers… (see Context menus).
2. Read the badge of each row: Safe, Has work (uncommitted files or unpushed commits, with counts) or Blocked (with the reason).
3. Tick the rows to remove. Safe worktrees and closed workers are ticked for you. Use Older than and Only safe to narrow the list.
4. Click Remove N. A summary lists what was removed and what was skipped, and why.

Clean up tabs

1. Open the tab menu and pick Clean up tabs…, or run it from the palette.
2. Pick a rule: idle tabs, finished tabs, tabs of archived or deleted sessions, worker tabs, or tabs not used for 1 hour, 1 day or 7 days. Each rule shows how many tabs it closes.
3. A Closed N tabs toast appears. Click Undo to bring them back.

To close the idle tabs of one group, right-click its group chip and pick Clean up group (see Context menus). On a phone, long press the close button.

Good to know

• Active, pinned, running and unread tabs, and tabs with an unsent draft, are always kept. Closing a tab does not stop its session.
• Removing a worktree with work needs an extra tick: Discard uncommitted files and unpushed commits. A merged branch can be deleted with it (Also delete branch, off by default).
• The scan is fast, and it does not slow the status bar. A branch that was squash-merged counts as merged, so its worktree is Safe. The status of a worktree is cached for display; removing always checks again.
• Removing a worktree runs in the background: every queued row shows Removing….
• Any linked worktree inside your roots can be removed, also one made by hand or by another tool. A locked or symlinked one is Blocked.
• A worktree tagged External is not in .claude/worktrees and is not ticked for you.