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Completely remove a VM including its machine config. Use when user wants to permanently delete everything about a VM.
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| name | purge-vm |
| description | Completely remove a VM including its machine config. Use when user wants to permanently delete everything about a VM. |
| allowed-tools | Read, Bash, AskUserQuestion |
Completely remove a VM including its disks AND machine configuration. This cannot be undone.
Run just list-machines to show existing machine configs. Ask which VM to purge.
IMPORTANT: Warn the user clearly:
destroy, there's no way to recreate the VMAsk for explicit confirmation.
Run:
yes | just purge {NAME}
The yes | is required to bypass the interactive confirmation prompt.
Confirm the VM and its config were completely removed.