{"slug": "72-6-gb-across-codex-claude-and-cursor-and-the-fix-that-keeps-every-conversation", "title": "72.6 GB across Codex, Claude, and Cursor, and the fix that keeps every conversation", "summary": "A developer Mac running Codex, Claude, and Cursor was found to hold 72.6 GB of session data, with images accounting for 77% and duplicates for 39% of the storage. Mint's read-only scan hooks measured the usage in August 2026, revealing that coding agents consume significant disk space, and the company says the fix reclaims space without deleting conversations.", "body_md": "# Your Coding Agent Is Eating Your Disk\n\nCodex, Claude, and Cursor were holding 72.6 GB on one Mac. We measured why coding agents eat disk space — 77% images, 39% duplicates — and how to reclaim it without deleting a single conversation.\n\n## How this was measured\n\nMeasured with Mint’s own read-only scan hooks on one developer Mac in August 2026. Session files were streamed with pread into a single reused buffer, so reading a 14 GB conversation grew the process by tens of megabytes; resident memory was sampled while it ran and is part of the record. Duplicate screenshots were found by hashing every embedded image; “archive frees nothing” was checked by reading free space before and after the archive step. The scans run entirely on device and you can reproduce them on yours.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/72-6-gb-across-codex-claude-and-cursor-and-the-fix-that-keeps-every-conversation", "canonical_source": "https://mint.dzgapp.com/build-journey/agents-are-not-a-black-box/", "published_at": "2026-08-20 12:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-08 14:27:47.088802+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Codex", "Claude", "Cursor", "Mint"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/72-6-gb-across-codex-claude-and-cursor-and-the-fix-that-keeps-every-conversation", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/72-6-gb-across-codex-claude-and-cursor-and-the-fix-that-keeps-every-conversation.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/72-6-gb-across-codex-claude-and-cursor-and-the-fix-that-keeps-every-conversation.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/72-6-gb-across-codex-claude-and-cursor-and-the-fix-that-keeps-every-conversation.jsonld"}}