devclean

Also known as: devclean-cli

Gone · Website (dead link) · Source repository (dead link) · Store listing

devclean is a safety-first CLI that finds and selectively removes Rust targets, node_modules, framework/build/test caches, package caches, and unused Docker data while protecting Git-tracked files, backups, databases, symlinks, mounts, and Docker volumes. Later versions added a native SwiftUI macOS menu bar app.

Platforms

Interface

Rust CLI on all platforms; native SwiftUI menu bar app on macOS

Tech stack

Rust CLI; SwiftUI macOS menu bar app

Features

Dev Junk Cleaner

Dev-junk cleaning

Its primary focus

Development

Solo developer · abandoned

Solo author 'Lê Anh Tuấn' (tuanle96); GitHub removed the account (observed 2026-11-02) while crates.io and winget keep the packages - taken down by the platform, not abandoned by the author.

License

MIT

Price

Free

Launched

Jul 11, 2026

crates.io devclean-cli 0.2.0 published 2026-07-11; GitHub release same day

Repo created

Jul 11, 2026

First release

Jul 11, 2026

Last seen alive

Jul 28, 2026

Checks

Mechanical checks derived from the fields above. Each row is one fact; "not yet checked" means exactly that, not a failure. There is no composite score; read them together.

Track record	115 days ago
Source published	Yes
Release signing	Unknown
Security contact	Yes
Reproducible builds	No
Telemetry	Opt-in only
Runs elevated	Never
Auto-update channel	None
Recent activity	Gone

MIT source published to crates.io and still downloadable after the GitHub repo's deletion
CI applied SLSA build-provenance and SBOM attestations to release archives, but the proofs lived in the deleted repo and can no longer be verified; exe Authenticode status not checked
SECURITY.md present in the published crate
No bit-reproducibility support; dependency-pinned builds (cargo --locked) plus attestations were the verification path
0.2.0 source has no network dependencies; later README describes opt-in, privacy-filtered Sentry crash reporting
User-space CLI cleaning developer caches; no elevation in source
No self-updater in source; distribution via winget and cargo, which handle updates externally

Relations

name collision DevCleaner (vashpan/xcode-dev-cleaner)
Unrelated, similarly named macOS cleaner for Xcode caches; also in this catalog as 'devcleaner'.

Research notes

Solo project by Lê Anh Tuấn (tuanle96): a Rust CLI for auditing and removing rebuildable dev artifacts (node_modules, cargo target, Docker caches), with a SwiftUI macOS menu bar app added later. Shipped 0.2.0 through 0.9.0 in four days (2026-07-11 to 2026-07-14).
Deletion-safety design confirmed in the crates.io 0.2.0 source (~2,100 LOC): forbids unsafe code, blocks candidates containing Git-tracked files by default, requires typing DELETE interactively, atomically renames each candidate into a same-filesystem quarantine before removal, and restores the original path on failure. That version has no network dependencies; the later README documents opt-in, privacy-filtered Sentry crash reporting.
Releases were CI-built on GitHub Actions (cargo build --locked for Linux, macOS, and Windows plus a universal macOS menu bar build) with SLSA build-provenance and SBOM attestations.
VirusTotal manual check (2026-11-03): winget 0.2.0 zip 0/66 detections, dropped devclean.exe 0/70; DetectItEasy reports a Rust + MSVC linker toolchain matching the documented CI build.
GitHub removed the author's account: the repo and profile 404, and the merged winget submission PR #400727 also 404s - self-deleted accounts leave their PRs and issues intact under the @ghost user, so this was an enforcement removal, not a self-deletion (reason unknown; the precedent is documented in the NixOS 'volth' case).
The registries did not follow GitHub's removal: crates.io still serves devclean-cli 0.2.0-0.5.0 (none yanked) and the winget manifest remains, still pointing at the deleted release zip. The GitHub-only releases up to v0.9.0 and the attestation proofs are unrecoverable, so the shipped binary can no longer be re-verified against source.

Sources

URL	Role	Status	Checked
github.com/tuanle96/devclean	repo	404	2026-11-03
winstall.app/apps/TuanLe.Devclean	store_listing	200	2026-11-03
github.com/tuanle96	other	404	2026-11-03
crates.io/crates/devclean-cli	store_listing	200	2026-11-03
github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs/tree/master/manifests/t/TuanLe/Devclean	other	200	2026-11-03

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