bd help --doc purge.
Permanently delete closed ephemeral beads and their associated data.
Closed ephemeral beads (wisps, transient molecules) accumulate rapidly and
have no value once closed. This command removes them to reclaim storage.
Deletes: issues, dependencies, labels, events, and comments for matching beads.
Skips: pinned beads (protected).
To delete closed non-ephemeral beads (regular tasks, features, bugs, etc.)
use bd prune instead.
For full Dolt storage reclaim after deleting many rows, follow with bd flatten
so history can be collapsed and old chunks can be garbage-collected.
EXAMPLES:
bd purge # Preview what would be purged
bd purge —force # Delete all closed ephemeral beads
bd purge —older-than 7d —force # Only purge items closed 7+ days ago
bd purge —pattern “-wisp-” # Only purge matching ID pattern
bd purge —dry-run # Detailed preview with stats