# Uninstall

> Remove Hivemind from your computer, with or without your settings and saved sessions.

Source: https://hivemind.griiken.com/guide/uninstall/

Remove the app, and choose whether your settings and saved sessions go too.

<AgentPrompt description="Paste this into your coding agent to remove Hivemind from this computer." page="uninstall">{`
Remove Hivemind from this computer.

1. Ask me whether to keep my settings and saved sessions, or delete them too.
2. Stop the background process that keeps terminals running: \`hive daemon stop\`. Tell me first: it ends every terminal and agent Hivemind runs.
3. On Linux and macOS run \`hivemind uninstall\`, adding \`--purge\` only if I asked to delete my data. On Windows run \`hivemind uninstall\`, adding \`-Purge\` only if I asked.
4. On Linux and macOS, also remove what the uninstaller leaves: \`rm -rf ~/.hivemind-app\` and \`rm -f ~/.local/bin/hive ~/.local/bin/hive-net\`.
5. Check: \`command -v hivemind hive\` prints nothing (on Windows, \`Get-Command hivemind, hive\` finds nothing).

Projects keep their \`.hivemind/\` issue folders; do not delete those unless I ask. At the end, tell me what was removed and what was kept.
`}</AgentPrompt>

## Before you start [#before-you-start]

Uninstalling ends every terminal and agent Hivemind runs. Finish or save their work first.

## Remove the app [#remove-the-app]

<Steps>
  <Step title="Stop the background process">
    Your terminals and agents keep running in a background process when the app closes. To stop it, run:

    ```bash
    hive daemon stop
    ```
  </Step>
  <Step title="Run the uninstaller">
    <Tabs>
      <Tab title="Linux and macOS">
        ```bash
        hivemind uninstall            # keeps your settings and sessions
        hivemind uninstall --purge    # deletes them too
        ```
      </Tab>
      <Tab title="Windows">
        ```powershell
        hivemind uninstall            # keeps your settings and sessions
        hivemind uninstall -Purge     # deletes them too
        ```
      </Tab>
    </Tabs>
  </Step>
  <Step title="Remove the rest (Linux and macOS)">
    The uninstaller removes the app and the `hivemind` command. To remove the `hive` and `hive-net` commands too, run:

    ```bash
    rm -rf ~/.hivemind-app
    rm -f ~/.local/bin/hive ~/.local/bin/hive-net
    ```
  </Step>
</Steps>

## What goes, and what stays [#what-goes-and-what-stays]

| | Linux | macOS | Windows |
|---|---|---|---|
| Removed | the app, the `hivemind` command, the desktop entry and icon | the app, the `hivemind` command, `~/Applications/hivemind.app` | the app, `hive`, `hive-net`, the `hivemind` command, the Start menu shortcut |
| Removed with `--purge` / `-Purge` | `~/.config/hivemind` | `~/Library/Application Support/hivemind` and `~/.config/hivemind` | `%APPDATA%\hivemind` and `~/.config/hivemind` |
| Always kept | each project's `.hivemind/` folder, and your agents' own programs | the same | the same |

## Check it worked [#check-it-worked]

```bash
command -v hivemind hive
```

It prints nothing. On Windows, `Get-Command hivemind, hive` finds nothing.

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