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Wind Down

Get your machine back. A long AI work session starts dozens of little helper programs. When the work ends, half of them are still running - software you don't know is there, holding ports open and eating memory. Wind Down finds them, shows you, and stops only what you approve.

Get skill - Wind-down on GitHub Free, open source, MIT.

The proof, documented

How it behaves

One skill, one repo, nothing to pay.

It looks first

The scan is read-only. It finds what is still running and shows you the list, plainly, before anything else happens.

You approve each stop

Nothing is ever stopped automatically or in bulk. One item at a time, your yes required for every one.

For data & operational safety

Your work stays open

Your editor, your browser, your terminal, and the session itself are off-limits. You lose the clutter, not your place.

The kits

This machine: leftover servers 
> netstat - listening ports on the machine that built this site

  TCP  0.0.0.0:8741   LISTENING   pid 24588   python
  TCP  0.0.0.0:8742   LISTENING   pid 26668   python
  TCP  0.0.0.0:8743   LISTENING   pid  8980   python
  TCP  0.0.0.0:8744   LISTENING   pid 23776   python
  TCP  0.0.0.0:8749   LISTENING   pid  1724   python

Five preview servers, still running. Left behind by AI
work sessions - including the one that built this very
page. Nobody noticed, because nothing on screen shows
them. That is the whole problem: the work ends, the
programs keep going, and the memory quietly disappears.

Wind Down's job is the list above: find them, show
you, and stop only what you approve, one at a time.
Captured 2026-09-01, unstaged - these are the build sessions' own leftovers, found while making the page about finding leftovers.
Wind-down: the contract 
What Wind Down holds itself to, from its own documentation:

1. The scan is read-only. Finding is never touching.
2. Nothing is stopped without your explicit, per-item
   approval. There is no automatic or bulk kill to
   press by accident.
3. Your editor, browser, terminal, and the session
   itself are excluded. You keep your place in the work.
4. Every process is re-verified immediately before it
   is stopped - the thing you approved is the thing
   that stops.
5. Honest about limits: process identification is
   best-effort, safeguards are not guarantees, and the
   documentation says so in plain words.
From the repository's own README and disclaimer - the same text every user sees before installing.