Clain classify

Skill drai-inn/clain/skills/clain-classify

Tidy up workspace sprawl from AI-assisted coding — categorical classification + executable plans for dev workspaces piling up under Google Drive sync.

Install

npx -y skills add drai-inn/clain --skill clain-classify

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Use when the developer wants a categorical inventory of one workspace or a tree of workspaces — e.g. "classify my dev directory", "what's regenerable in this project?", "what kinds of subtrees are in this workspace tree?", "run clain classify --here". Surfaces cache-managed / ephemeral / bytecode / workspace-source tags and reports which workspaces sit inside a synced (e.g. GDrive / OneDrive / Dropbox / iCloud Drive) tree.

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Run the clain CLI to classify workspaces under a developer-supplied root and surface the result.

Steps

Pick the mode. If the developer is talking about one project they're in (the common case), use single-workspace mode by passing --here. If they're talking about a tree of projects (e.g. their ~/dev/ directory), use the default tree mode.
Single-workspace mode (recommended default for everyday use):

clain classify --here "$WORKSPACE_PATH"      # or omit the path to use cwd

Tree mode (for cleaning up many workspaces at once): confirm the root with the developer. If they did not specify a path, ask for one or check whether CLAIN_DEV_ROOT is set in their environment. Do not invent a default — clain has no baked-in default in tree mode and will error if neither a positional argument nor CLAIN_DEV_ROOT is provided.

clain classify "$ROOT"

Machine-readable output (any mode): add --json to either form for piping or further analysis.
Drill into one workspace (tree mode only): clain classify "$ROOT" --workspace "$WORKSPACE_NAME". (Not compatible with --here.)
Report the output verbatim. In single-workspace mode highlight: the manifests detected, the cache-managed subtrees, and the suggested next command shown in the "Next:" footer. In tree mode highlight: the number of workspaces under the synced tree, the most common class observed, and any rows marked with errors.

Notes

This command is strictly read-only against $ROOT. It does not modify any file under the scanned tree.
The result is cached for 24 hours under $XDG_STATE_HOME/clain/classify/<root-hash>.json. Pass --refresh to force a fresh scan.
If the command fails (clain: command not found, root does not exist, etc.), report the failure verbatim. Do not attempt workarounds or guess a different command.