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Uninstall and removal ​

Nothing agentsmyth writes is hidden, and nothing it writes requires agentsmyth itself to remove. Everything below is a plain file or directory you can delete with your normal tools.

What init wrote to this repo ​

Everything under workflow/ and, for two specific tools, one adapter file:

  • workflow/config/*.yaml — five files (domain.yaml, repo-profile.yaml, source-of-truth.yaml, release.yaml, verification.yaml)
  • workflow/artifacts/ — seven empty phase directories, plus whatever lifecycle artifacts you've since written into them
  • workflow/learnings/
  • Cursor: .cursor/rules/agentsmyth.mdc. Non-macOS Copilot: .github/copilot-instructions.md. No other tool gets a per-repo adapter file — see Under the hood for why.

Delete workflow/ and, if present, the adapter file. That's the entire per-repo footprint. There's nothing else to find and nothing hidden in node_modules or a cache directory — agentsmyth has no runtime dependency and leaves no daemon or background process.

Removing the pre-commit hook ​

init installs a mandatory local git hook, appended between two marker lines:

# >>> agentsmyth:mandatory-lifecycle-gate >>>
...
# <<< agentsmyth:mandatory-lifecycle-gate <<<

If you had no pre-commit hook before agentsmyth, the whole file is safe to delete: rm .git/hooks/pre-commit (or whatever path git config core.hooksPath points at, if you'd configured a custom one).

If you already had your own hook, agentsmyth appended its block to the end of it rather than overwriting anything — delete just the lines between the two markers above and your original hook is back exactly as it was.

Is ~/.agentsmyth/ safe to delete? ​

Only if no other repo on this machine still links to it. ~/.agentsmyth/workflow/ is a shared install — every repo you've run agentsmyth init in points at the same global copy via definitions_root in its own repo-profile.yaml, rather than keeping a local copy of the lifecycle definitions. Deleting it doesn't touch any repo's files directly, but the next agentsmyth check in any linked repo will fail to resolve a validator until either the global tree is restored or that repo is re-linked.

If agentsmyth is fully uninstalled everywhere, rm -rf ~/.agentsmyth/ is complete and safe. If you're only removing it from one repo, leave the global install alone.

What breaks if a repo keeps workflow/ but the global tree is gone ​

This is the failure mode worth knowing about before it happens, not after: a repo with definitions_root set and no repo-local workflow/validators/, workflow/skills/, or workflow/router.md (the normal, intended state for a linked repo) has nowhere left to resolve a validator from if ~/.agentsmyth/workflow/ disappears. Every agentsmyth check invocation — including the mandatory pre-commit hook, since it shells out to agentsmyth check --staged — starts failing outright, not gracefully degrading. The fix is either restoring ~/.agentsmyth/workflow/ (re-run agentsmyth prepare) or accepting that the repo is now effectively broken until you do.