dead-code-analyze

A command that finds code which may no longer be used, checks its usage across the whole codebase, and repeats the check until no further dead code is found. Dead code is code that cannot be reached or is no longer needed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review functions, classes, types, fields, and imports in selected files, identify unused features, and verify whether they are safe to remove.
Why use it?
It replaces guesses about unused code with evidence such as callers, search results, or proof that nothing uses it. It also catches code used only by other unused code.

Command

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 commands/axiomantic/spellbook/dead-code-analyze
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/axiomantic/spellbook
Per session 28 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,536 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 $0.00028 $0.02536
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.01268
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00507
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00254

Measured 2d ago against content hash 5bf3859934f8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dead-code-analyze 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.

commands/dead-code-analyze.md · 280 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 280 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

MISSION

Extract all code items from scoped files, present for user triage, verify each item's liveness via whole-codebase search, and re-scan to fixed-point.

Run after /dead-code-setup completes.

Prerequisites: Git safety completed, scope selected.

Invariant Principles

  1. Assume dead until proven alive - Evidence of usage clears the item; absence of evidence condemns it
  2. Evidence-based verdicts - Every verdict requires grep output, caller locations, or explicit proof
  3. Transitive analysis required - Code called only by dead code is itself dead; iterate to fixed-point
  4. Write-only detection - Setters without getter usage indicate dead features (entire feature unused, not just dead functions)

Phase 2: Code Item Extraction

Extract ALL added code items from scoped files.

What to Extract

Item Type Examples How to Identify
Procedures/Functions proc foo(), func bar(), def baz() Declaration lines
Types/Classes type Foo = object, class Bar Type definitions
Object Fields field: int in type definitions Field declarations
Imports/Includes import foo, from x import y Import statements
Methods Procs on objects, class methods Method definitions
Constants const X = 5, #define X Constant declarations
Macros/Templates macro foo(), template bar() Macro/template defs
Global Variables Top-level vars Variable declarations
Getters/Setters Accessor procs/methods Property accessors
Iterators iterator items(), for x in y Iterator definitions
Convenience Wrappers Simple forwarding functions Thin wrapper procs

Read the full file on GitHub · 280 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. 2d ago First seen · 280 lines · 28 tokens per session scan A 5bf3859934f8

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dead-code-analyze is a command published in the GitHub repository axiomantic/spellbook (10 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 28 tokens to every session and 2,536 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 2026-08-31.