diff --git a/tools/inspect_tree.py b/tools/inspect_tree.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 3fea636..0000000
--- a/tools/inspect_tree.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-import json
-
-src = "/root/troupe-standup/repo_tree.tsv"
-lines = open(src, encoding="utf-8").read().splitlines()
-print("total lines:", len(lines))
-for i, l in enumerate(lines, 1):
-    if i >= 134:
-        print(i, repr(l[:80]), "...", repr(l[-40:]))