Detect and remove dead code, stale comments, and over-abstraction across codebases.
npx skills add https://github.com/nklisch/skills --skill cruft-cleaner
Please help me install this Agent Skill. Skill: cruft-cleaner Source: https://github.com/nklisch/skills/tree/main/plugins/workflow/skills/cruft-cleaner Command: npx skills add https://github.com/nklisch/skills --skill cruft-cleaner
AI‑generated projects often accumulate dead code, stale comments, compatibility shims, defensive bloat, and over‑abstraction, which degrade maintainability and increase technical debt. The cruft‑cleaner skill systematically identifies and removes this unwanted cruft.
Run the cruft‑cleaner skill to sweep the entire repository for dead code and stale comments.
High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.
To automatically detect and remove dead code, you can run a multi-phase cleanup skill that uses language-aware tooling and heuristic grep patterns to identify stale comments, compatibility shims, and defensive bloat for user-guided triage and removal.
AI-accumulated cruft consists of dead code, stale comments, compatibility shims, defensive bloat, and over-abstraction that degrade maintainability. Cleanup involves systematically scanning the repository to identify this technical debt and orchestrating parallel agents to remove it.
Yes, the dead code cleanup tool works with TypeScript, Python, Go, and Rust. It applies language-aware tooling to scan these codebases and uncover high, medium, and low-confidence cruft for interactive triage.
To clean up over-abstraction and defensive bloat across a large codebase, the tool orchestrates parallel agents with optional git worktree isolation, allowing scalable cleanup while providing interactive checkpoints to approve or reject findings.
Yes, you need permission to create git worktrees and edit source files to run automated code cleanup. The skill requires repository file access and the ability to execute language-specific tooling.
Yes, you can review and approve dead code findings before removal through user-guided triage. The skill provides interactive checkpoints that let you approve or reject findings categorized by high, medium, and low-confidence tiers.
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