Free tier · Course 5

Janitor + Shutdown

Sessions end in chaos without a protocol. Files accumulate at the workspace root. Memory fills with scratch data from weeks ago. You close the chat and your agent's state evaporates — the next instance wakes up with no record of what was decided, what shipped, or what nearly broke.

Two trigger words fix this. "Janitor mode" — your agent audits the workspace, cleans debris, logs the session state, and hands off clean to the next instance. "Shutdown mode" — same cleanup plus a session grade: what shipped, what was learned, what drifted. Your agent grades its own work and you decide whether the grade is honest.

This is the first layer of operations discipline. Your agent stops being a chat window and starts being a system that closes clean and wakes up ready. The free tier ends here. Five courses. Full architecture installed. Your agent journals, files, remembers, and closes clean.