MAmahimai·Feb 9, 2026Submission
Show HN: Envoic – Find and clean up scattered Python virtual environments
I work across a lot of Python projects and kept losing track of virtual environments — old `.venv` directories sitting in project folders, eating disk. There's no built-in way to answer "where are all my venvs and how much space are they using?"
envoic scans your filesystem, detects Python environments using ground-truth signals (pyvenv.cfg, bin/python, conda-meta), and presents a utilitarian report.
uvx envoic scan ~/projects
The interactive `manage` command lets you select environments to delete with a checkbox UI.
Design choices:
- Two dependencies (typer + questionary). Dataclasses instead of Pydantic to keep the install under 3MB — important since `uvx` downloads on every invocation.
- Detection doesn't rely on directory names alone. It checks for `pyvenv.cfg` (the definitive marker), Python binaries, activation scripts, and con
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da metadata.
- Deletion requires typing "delete", not y/n. Symlinks are unlinked without following. Paths outside the scan root are rejected.
- Output style is inspired by USGC's TR-100 Machine Report [1] — monospaced, box-drawn, no colors. Information density over decoration.
[1] https://github.com/usgraphics/usgc-machine-report