AI coding tools are eating your Mac's disk space — here's the junk they leave behind
Last updated June 14, 2026
AI coding tools create a new category of disk junk: agent transcripts (Claude Code, Codex), editor caches (Cursor), and multi-gigabyte local model stores (Ollama, LM Studio, Hugging Face). Most of it is rebuildable cache, but each tool hides it in a different path. Tokki Clean is built specifically to find and safely clear this AI-developer junk.
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~/.claude/projects + cachesClaude Code transcripts + Node cache.
~/.codex/sessionsCodex CLI session logs.
~/.ollama/modelsOllama model blobs.
~/.cache/lm-studio/modelsLM Studio models (incl. orphaned folders).
~/.cache/huggingface/hubHugging Face model/dataset cache.
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Frequently asked questions
Which AI tools take up the most disk space on a Mac?
Local model runners — Ollama, LM Studio, and Hugging Face caches — are the biggest, often 5–15 GB per model. Agent CLIs like Claude Code and Codex add transcripts and caches on top.
Is there a Mac cleaner that targets AI-tool junk specifically?
Yes — Tokki Clean is a free, native cleaner built for exactly this: it knows the paths for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Ollama, LM Studio, and Hugging Face and clears them safely.