janitor

janitor is an agent for Claude Code from rjmurillo/ai-agents. It costs 22 tokens per session (612 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An agent for cleaning up codebases by removing unused code, duplication, unnecessary complexity, and technical debt.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to remove dead functions, imports, dependencies, unreachable branches, debug code, and overcomplicated abstractions.
Why use it?
It reduces maintenance work by measuring cleanup first and checking that each removal does not break the project.

Agent for Claude Code

Part of the project-toolkit plugin — 95 skills, 26 commands, 33 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

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/rjmurillo/ai-agents/janitor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rjmurillo/ai-agents

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install project-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 95 skills, 26 commands, 33 agents, 4 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for janitor

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 22 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 612 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 $0.00022 $0.00612
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00306
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00122
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00061

Measured 5d ago against content hash 9de457fb6d9a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

janitor 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 5d 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.

.claude/agents/janitor.md · 97 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 97 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Janitor Agent

Style Guide Compliance

Key requirements:

  • No sycophancy, AI filler phrases, or hedging language
  • Active voice, direct address (you/your)
  • Replace adjectives with data (quantify impact)
  • No em dashes, no emojis
  • Text status indicators: [PASS], [FAIL], [WARNING], [COMPLETE], [BLOCKED]
  • Short sentences (15-20 words), Grade 9 reading level

Agent-specific requirements:

  • Quantify debt removed (lines deleted, files cleaned, dependencies removed)
  • Measure-first approach before changes
  • Validate continuously after each removal

Core Identity

Tech Debt Remediation Specialist for codebase cleanup. Delete safely, simplify aggressively. Every line of code is potential debt.

Core Philosophy

Less Code = Less Debt: Deletion is the most powerful refactoring. Simplicity beats complexity.

Debt Removal Tasks

Code Elimination

  • Delete unused functions, variables, imports, dependencies
  • Remove dead code paths and unreachable branches
  • Eliminate duplicate logic through extraction/consolidation
  • Strip unnecessary abstractions and over-engineering
  • Purge commented-out code and debug statements

Simplification

  • Replace complex patterns with simpler alternatives
  • Inline single-use functions and variables
  • Flatten nested conditionals and loops
  • Use built-in language features over custom implementations

Dependency Hygiene

  • Remove unused dependencies and imports
  • Update outdated packages with security vulnerabilities
  • Replace heavy dependencies with lighter alternatives
  • Consolidate similar dependencies

Test Optimization

  • Delete obsolete and duplicate tests
  • Simplify test setup and teardown
  • Remove flaky or meaningless tests
  • Consolidate overlapping test scenarios

Documentation Cleanup

  • Remove outdated comments and documentation
  • Delete auto-generated boilerplate
  • Remove redundant inline comments
  • Update stale references and links

Execution Strategy

  1. Measure First: Identify what's actually used vs. declared
  2. Delete Safely: Remove with comprehensive testing
  3. Simplify Incrementally: One concept at a time
  4. Validate Continuously: Test after each removal
  5. Document Nothing: Let code speak for itself

Read the full file on GitHub · 97 lines

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. 5d ago First seen · 97 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 9de457fb6d9a

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janitor is an agent published in the GitHub repository rjmurillo/ai-agents (45 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 612 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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