monitoring-and-cleanup

name	monitoring-and-cleanup
description	How to change what's monitored (whole series, specific seasons, a movie) and how to remove shows/movies and reclaim disk space — safely, with confirmation. TRIGGER THIS SKILL WHEN: - "Stop monitoring season 1" / "only monitor the latest season" - "Unmonitor <title>" / "monitor <title> again" - "Remove <show/movie>" / "delete <title> and its files" - "What's taking up the most space?" / "free up disk" SYMPTOMS that you skipped this skill: - Deleting files without explicit confirmation - Deleting a series when the user only wanted to stop monitoring it
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Monitoring & cleanup

Monitoring vs. deleting — clarify intent

These are very different:

• Unmonitor = keep the item and its files, but stop searching/grabbing new content.
• Delete = remove the item from Sonarr/Radarr (optionally also delete files).

If the user says "stop downloading season 1", they almost always mean unmonitor, not delete. Confirm if ambiguous.

Change monitoring

• TV series / seasons: sonarr_set_monitoring with seriesId, plus monitored for the whole show and/or a seasons array for individual seasons. Example: keep only the latest season by unmonitoring older ones.
• Movie: radarr_set_monitoring with movieId + monitored.

Remove an item

• TV: sonarr_delete_series (deleteFiles defaults false).
• Movie: radarr_delete_movie (deleteFiles defaults false).

Always confirm before deleting, and confirm explicitly before deleteFiles: true — that erases downloaded media from disk and is not reversible from MCPArr. State the title and whether files will be deleted, then proceed.

Reclaiming disk space

1. *_health reports free space per volume.
2. To find space hogs: radarr_search_library (movies have sizes via files) and sonarr_search_library (episode/file counts) to identify large or finished items.
3. Suggest candidates (finished shows the user no longer wants, low-rated movies) and let the user choose what to delete. Don't mass-delete on your own initiative.

Safety checklist before any delete

• Correct item identified by id (not just a fuzzy title match)
• User asked to delete (not merely unmonitor)
• deleteFiles intent explicitly confirmed