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Downloads Triage
🔵 Stable🕐 updated 2026-07-19
🔷 SkillSpec L3
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Empty the Downloads folder that's become a junk drawer — the four-bucket pass (file, delete, action, quarantine), the age-based bulk rules that make 2,000 items tractable, and the tiny habit that keeps it empty. Use when asked clean up my downloads folder, 2000 files in downloads help, what's safe to delete here, or stop my downloads from piling up. Produces the bucket pass with bulk rules, the safe-delete classes, the keeper-filing routes, and the weekly sweep habit.
What to give it
▸The scale and vintage — item count and oldest file; a 200-item month and a 4,000-item three-years get different opening moves
▸The filing destinations — where keepers go (the [folder-structure-designer](../folder-structure-designer/SKILL.md) structure if one exists; the `_inbox` if not)
▸Known treasures — anything important currently living in Downloads (tax documents in the junk drawer is common and worth asking about explicitly)
✅ The bar it holds itself to
Every skill in this library self-verifies — these are this skill's own quality checks, straight from its definition.
✓Bulk rules cleared the majority before any item-by-item work
✓Created/edited documents were separated from re-downloadables before deleting
✓Money/legal/tax files got filed to real homes immediately
✓Quarantine carries a date and an auto-expiry decision
✓The habit is scheduled, not aspirational
⚠️ What it refuses to do
Do not triage item-by-item from the top — bulk classes first or the session dies at file 60
Do not keep re-downloadables "just in case" — the source is the backup
Do not delete created-here documents by class — they're the one irreplaceable category
Do not let quarantine become the new junk drawer — no expiry, no quarantine
Do not skip asking about treasures — tax PDFs in Downloads is the classic finding
Install
npx pm-claude-skills add --agent claude # or codex · cursor · gemini · hermes
# or one-line MCP (every skill, any client):
claude mcp add pm-skills -- npx -y pm-claude-skills-mcpRelated skills
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