HANDOFF — 2026-05-02 Folder Cleanup (pending MCQ decisions)

Status: Cleanup pass complete. 6 pending decisions below await Sam's MCQ answers before next-step actions can run.

Predecessor session export: Notion page 3541018d-f1f5-8105-bc96-e73f31775d80

What ran

Scheduled folder-cleanup task fired 2026-05-02 ~07:54 AM. Ran the v2 three-pass workflow with reference-check gating and quarantine-only moves.

Pass results

Pass	Scope	Result
Pass 1	Top-level dedupe + junk: Desktop, Documents top-only, Downloads, Temp, UserRoot	248 files moved (~77 MB), 1 skip (.node_repl_history live handle)
Pass 2	Deep recursion: Desktop + Downloads only	571 junk moved, 0 dup folders, 28 empty dirs catalogued, 6,060 protected by NEVER-TOUCH, 0 ref-check skips, 0 failures
Pass 3	Root organization	286 root strays catalogued, NO MOVES. Documents:154, Downloads:89, UserRoot:20, Desktop:18

Quarantine totals

819 items, 1,358.61 MB at C:\Users\SAguiar\_QUARANTINE-2026-05-02\
Auto-delete date: 2026-06-01
README: written ✓
actions.csv manifest: written ✓
pass3-root-strays.csv: written ✓
empty-dirs-pass2.txt: written ✓
Reference-check skips this run: 0
Registry row appended: ✓ | 2026-05-02 | _QUARANTINE-2026-05-02 | 819 items, 1358.61 MB | 2026-06-01 | active |

Pending decisions (Sam to answer)

Q1 — 286 Pass 3 root strays. A (recommended): auto-route by extension/pattern next run, dry-run first. B: leave in place. C: quarantine all today. D: other.

Q2 — Pass 2 recursion into Documents. A (recommended): opt-in allow-list of Documents subfolders. B: keep Pass 2 out of Documents. C: recurse all of Documents. D: other.