---
title: "Write cleanup scripts from a ticket description · Lenexa Learn"
description: "A developer pasted a ticket with examples into Cursor, running Claude, and got working bash scripts that cleaned up stale cloud resources. It saved hours."
url: https://www.lenexa.ai/learn/use-cases/write-cleanup-scripts-from-a-ticket-description/
site: "Lenexa Learn"
---

Software & DevOps

# Write cleanup scripts from a ticket description

A developer pasted a ticket with examples into Cursor, running Claude, and got working bash scripts that cleaned up stale cloud resources. It saved hours.

**Caution.** Always dry-run deletion scripts.

## Steps

1. Paste in the ticket.
2. Generate the scripts.
3. Do a dry run first.

## Prompt you can copy

```
Here's the ticket: [paste]. Write scripts that list and safely delete stale [resources], with a dry-run mode.
```

## Tools

- Cursor
- Claude

For Developers. Added October 12, 2026.

## Source

[hn](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45360662) · September 2025

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