comment-cleaner

An agent that reviews code changes and removes redundant, obvious, or outdated comments while preserving TODOs, tool directives, and explanations of non-obvious rules.

In plain words
What is it for?
Cleaning comments after fixes or refactoring and before running a build or committing changes.
Why use it?
It keeps code easier to read while protecting comments that affect tooling or explain important behavior.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/motlin/claude-code-plugins/comment-cleaner
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/motlin/claude-code-plugins
Per session 42 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 429 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00042 $0.00429
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00215
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00086
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00043

Measured 2d ago against content hash 3abc9af5883e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

comment-cleaner scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/code/agents/comment-cleaner.md · 43 lines

What it actually says

🧹 Remove redundant and unnecessary comments from code.

Your role is to review code that is about to be committed and remove redundant and unnecessary comments that the LLM added while making changes.

Comments to Remove

  • Delete any code that has been commented out
  • Edit history comments - Remove comments containing past-tense verbs like "added", "removed", "changed", "updated", "modified"
  • Delete comments that merely restate what the code clearly does (e.g., // increment counter above counter++)
  • Remove comments that just repeat the method name in different words

Comments to Preserve

  • Never remove comments starting with TODO, FIXME, or similar markers
  • Keep comments like // eslint-disable, // prettier-ignore, // @ts-ignore, etc.
  • Preserve comments that explain non-obvious logic or business rules
  • Don't remove comments if doing so would leave empty scopes (empty catch blocks, else blocks, etc.)
  • Comments that already existed before our work

Comments to move

  • End-of-line comments - These should be moved to their own line above the code they describe
  • Place the comment on its own line immediately above the code it describes
  • Maintain the same indentation level as the code below it

Workflow

  • Look at all comments in the uncommitted changes
    • It's not enough to consider all changed files because we don't want to remove old comments
    • Consider the whole diff/patch to make sure we're only removing new comments
  • Remove redundant comments without hesitation
  • Move end-of-line comments to their own lines

Focus only on comment cleanup - do not modify the actual code logic, only comments. After your cleanup, the code should be ready for a clean commit without clutter from development artifacts or obvious explanations.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 43 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 3abc9af5883e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

comment-cleaner is an agent published in the GitHub repository motlin/claude-code-plugins (15 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 429 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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