reap-source

work/ accumulates ~25× the size of the finished shorts: the full podcast download and every per-stage clip_NN.*.mp4 linger forever, while the deliverable is already safe in output/. This reaper deletes the heavy reclaimable stuff and keeps the cheap JSON that records what was done.

Usage

reap-source.sh <id>             # reap one source (e.g. 81d2d55a40 or work/81d2d55a40)
reap-source.sh <id> --dry-run   # show what would be freed, delete nothing
reap-source.sh <id> --force     # reap even with no finished shorts in output/
reap-source.sh --backlog        # reap every source whose shorts are in output/
reap-source.sh --backlog -n     # dry-run the whole sweep (recommended first)

What it deletes vs keeps

Deletes (heavy, reclaimable):

• source.mp4 — the full podcast; re-downloadable any time from the URL in ingest.json
• clip_*.{mp4,mov,wav,m4a,webm,mkv} — every per-stage intermediate (the bulk of the bloat)
• broll/ — the cutaway cache, plus the source's mcptube ingest (db/frames/chroma) via broll-cleanup

Keeps (cheap, the memory):

• all *.json — ingest.json, transcript.json (expensive whisper output), topics.json, segments.json, every *.broll_plan.json, *.grade.json
• all *.txt / *.path / *meta sidecars

After reaping it writes a .reaped marker (date + bytes freed), calls sources-ledger record <id> to flip the registry entry to status:reaped, then a final sources-ledger sync.

Safety

• Manual only. Nothing in the pipeline auto-reaps. The decision is yours.
• Gated. Refuses a source that has no finished output/<slug>/*.mp4 unless --force — so a failed/half-run source isn't reaped before it ever delivered.
• Re-downloadable. To restore a reaped source: bash start.sh work/<id> (or re-ingest from its saved URL). transcript.json is kept, so re-transcription is skipped on a re-run.
• Idempotent. Re-reaping an already-reaped source is a no-op. Non-fatal — per-file errors don't abort a --backlog sweep.

Restore a reaped source

bash start.sh work/<id>     # re-ingests source.mp4 from the saved URL; transcript.json is reused