shared-drive-cleanup
GitHub针对无人负责的共享盘进行清理,通过确立所有者、自上而下审计及归档而非删除的策略,解决数据堆积问题。产出审计地图、归档计划及所有权分配,防止数据再生。
Trigger Scenarios
Install
npx skills add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills --skill shared-drive-cleanup -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "shared-drive-cleanup",
"homepage": "https:\/\/mohitagw15856.github.io\/pm-claude-skills\/skill\/shared-drive-cleanup.html",
"metadata": {
"openclaw": {
"emoji": "🧠"
}
},
"description": "Clean up a shared drive nobody owns — the ownership-first move, the top-down audit that finds the 80% (stale projects, duplicates, ex-employee folders), the archive-don't-delete discipline for shared property, and the norms that prevent regrowth. Use when asked our shared drive is a disaster, clean up the team drive, who owns all these folders, or people are scared to delete anything. Produces the audit map, the archive plan with the fear-killing rule, the ownership assignments, and the going-forward norms."
}
Shared Drive Cleanup Skill
Shared drives rot for one structural reason: shared ownership is no ownership. Nobody deletes (it might be someone's), nobody files (whose rule?), and the drive becomes archaeology — ex-employees' folders, three "Marketing" directories, project debris from 2022. The cleanup starts with ownership (one named steward, or nothing sticks), proceeds top-down (folder-level verdicts, never file-by-file), and replaces deletion fear with the archive rule: nothing is destroyed; everything doubtful moves to a dated archive that nobody has ever actually needed to reopen — but could.
What This Skill Produces
- The audit map — top-level folders × last-modified × apparent owner × verdict (keep / archive / merge)
- The archive plan —
_archive/2026/moves, the fear-killing everything-is-recoverable rule, the announcement - The ownership layer — steward named per surviving top-level folder; unowned folders can't survive the audit
- The norms — the placement rules + naming convention + quarterly review that prevent the regrowth
Required Inputs
Ask for these if not provided:
- The drive's shape — top-level listing with last-modified dates (the audit works at this altitude; no file inventories)
- The political reality — whose folders are whose, any sensitive territories (Legal's corner, the exec folder), and whether a steward mandate exists or must be manufactured
- The team's fear level — has deletion ever caused an incident? The archive rule's prominence scales with the scar tissue
- Platform — Drive/SharePoint/Dropbox — permissions and versioning mechanics differ; the plan uses the real ones
Framework: The Cleanup Rules
- Ownership precedes organization: appoint the steward (or become it) before touching anything — cleanups without an owner regress within a quarter. Every top-level folder that survives gets a named steward too; "the team's" folders go to the audit's merge-or-archive pile.
- Audit top-down, verdict at folder level: last-modified > 12 months + no named owner → archive candidate, whole. Duplicated concepts (three Marketings) → one survivor, others merged-then-archived. File-by-file review is how cleanups die; folders are the unit.
- Archive, never delete — and say so loudly: everything doubtful moves to
_archive/[year]/[original-name]— visible, searchable, restorable. The announcement leads with this rule because fear is the blocker: "nothing is being deleted; everything is one search away" converts objectors into shruggers. (Actual deletion happens years later, per the document-retention-map, by the steward, quietly.) - Ex-employee folders get a protocol, not a taboo: steward + the person's former manager skim for the live material (extract to owned homes), then the folder archives whole. The taboo version — untouchable ghost folders — is how drives become graveyards.
- Regrowth prevention is norms plus cadence: the surviving structure gets placement rules (folder-structure-designer), the naming line (filename-convention), and a quarterly 30-minute steward review. A cleanup without the cadence is a before photo.
Output Format
Drive Cleanup: [drive] — steward: [name]
The Audit Map
| Top-level folder | Last modified | Owner | Verdict |
|---|
The Archive Move
[_archive/2026/ plan · the announcement draft, leading with nothing-is-deleted · the restore-on-request promise]
Ownership Layer
[Surviving folders × stewards · the ex-employee protocol runs on: (list)]
Going Forward
[Placement rules posted · naming line · quarterly steward review, calendared]
Quality Checks
- A steward exists before any move happens
- Verdicts were made at folder level — no file-by-file audit
- The announcement leads with the archive-not-delete rule
- Every surviving top-level folder has a named steward
- The quarterly review is calendared — cleanup without cadence is a photo
Anti-Patterns
- Do not clean without a mandate — unowned cleanups get reverted by the first objector
- Do not review file-by-file — the audit dies at folder 40 of 4,000
- Do not delete in round one — archive buys the same tidiness without the fear war
- Do not leave ghost folders as memorials — the protocol extracts and archives them respectfully
- Do not skip the announcement — silent cleanups read as data loss and generate the incident the fear predicted
Version History
- 471c606 Current 2026-07-22 13:42


