Builds on this PR's diagnosis by @Frowtek: a missing workdir is
ambiguous (deleted project vs. an unmounted external volume / network
share / VPN not yet up), so it's not safe evidence for a destructive
GC sweep — especially one that runs unattended at startup.
- cli.py / gateway/run.py: the startup auto-maintenance sweep now
always passes delete_orphans=False to maybe_auto_prune_checkpoints().
It still prunes by retention_days, size cap, and legacy archives —
none of which require guessing whether a project was deleted or is
just temporarily unreachable.
- hermes_cli/config.py: drop the now-unused delete_orphans default.
- hermes_cli/checkpoints.py: `hermes checkpoints prune` (the explicit,
human-invoked path) now previews the orphan project list and asks
for confirmation before deleting, unless -f/--force is passed.
- Docs updated (EN + zh-Hans) to match.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>