find-dead-code

find-dead-code is a command for Claude Code from rohitg00/awesome-claude-code-toolkit. It costs 0 tokens per session (305 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A command that identifies code the project does not appear to use, including unused exports, files, variables, and unreachable sections.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to generate a file-by-file report of dead code, its locations, confidence levels, and estimated size.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish safe cleanup candidates from code that needs manual review, while accounting for entry points and dynamic usage.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the dead-code-finder plugin — 2 commands shipped together

Good fit Use it to generate a file-by-file report of dead code, its locations…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/rohitg00/awesome-claude-code-toolkit/find-dead-code
About the project

Awesome Claude Code Toolkit is a curated collection of extensions and configuration for Claude Code, including agents, skills, commands, plugins, hooks, rules, templates, MCP configurations, and companion apps. It is for Claude Code users who want ready-made workflows and integrations for different development tasks. The catalogue add-ons are selected components from this toolkit.

rohitg00/awesome-claude-code-toolkit · 2,593 stars · on GitHub

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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rohitg00/awesome-claude-code-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dead-code-finder, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 commands.

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README.md
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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 305 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00000 $0.00305
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00152
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00061
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00030

Measured 3d ago against content hash cf2f1af51128, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

find-dead-code 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 3d 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/dead-code-finder/commands/find-dead-code.md · 29 lines

What it actually says

/find-dead-code - Find Dead Code

Identify unused code across the codebase.

Steps

  1. Detect the project language and build system
  2. Identify entry points: main files, exported modules, route handlers, CLI commands
  3. Build a dependency graph starting from all entry points
  4. Scan for unused exports: functions, classes, constants, and types not imported anywhere
  5. Check for unused files that are not imported or required by any other file
  6. Detect unused variables, parameters, and private methods within each file
  7. Identify commented-out code blocks longer than 3 lines
  8. Check for unreachable code after return, throw, or break statements
  9. Cross-reference with test files to exclude test-only utilities
  10. Generate a report sorted by file with: item name, type, file path, line number
  11. Calculate the total lines of dead code and percentage of codebase
  12. Flag high-confidence removals vs items that need manual review

Rules

  • Exclude test files, fixtures, and configuration from dead code detection
  • Do not flag dynamically imported modules or reflection-based usage
  • Consider decorator and annotation usage (Angular, NestJS, Spring)
  • Check for event handler registrations that may appear unused
  • Exclude public API exports that may be consumed by external packages
  • Mark confidence level: high (definitely unused), medium (likely unused), low (possibly unused)
  • Do not auto-delete anything without explicit user confirmation
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. 3d ago First seen · 29 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A cf2f1af51128

Subscribe to this mod's changes

find-dead-code is a command published in the GitHub repository rohitg00/awesome-claude-code-toolkit (2,593 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 305 tokens. 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 2026-09-03.