git.delete

A safe cleanup guide for removing a Python function, file, or directory from a Git repository. It also checks related code, tests, imports, and configuration.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when deleting a function, file, or directory and checking the rest of the codebase for callers, references, related tests, and configuration changes.
Why use it?
Removing code can leave broken imports, unused helpers, failing tests, or outdated settings. This helps trace and clean up those connections.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/causify-ai/helpers/git.delete
Any agent
npx skills add causify-ai/helpers --skill git.delete
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/causify-ai/helpers

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 453 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 $0.00020 $0.00453
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00227
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00091
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00045

Measured 2d ago against content hash 448edf046e09, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

git.delete 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.

.claude/skills/git.delete/SKILL.md · 44 lines

What it actually says

  • Given a target <src> (function, file, or directory), remove it from the repo cleanly with no dangling references or dead code

  • Identify what <src> is before proceeding

If <src> Is a Function

  • Remove the function definition from its source file
  • Find all callers: search the entire codebase for any call sites and remove or refactor them
  • Remove orphaned helpers: recursively find functions that are now only called by <src> (or each other) and remove them too
  • Remove tests: delete all unit tests that exclusively test <src> or its orphaned helpers
  • Clean up imports: remove any imports that were only needed by the deleted code

If <src> Is a File or Directory

  • Remove the file/directory from the repo
  • Find all references: search for any import, from ... import, require, or path strings pointing to <src>
  • Remove or refactor each reference: delete the import and any code that depended on it, or replace it with an alternative if a substitute exists
  • Remove related tests: delete test files that exclusively test the removed file/directory
  • Update configs: check and update any config files (e.g. pyproject.toml, setup.py, __init__.py, MANIFEST.in) that reference <src>

After Removal (all Cases)

  • Run the test suite to confirm nothing is broken
  • Run a final grep for the removed name to catch any remaining references
  • Summarize the changes
  • Do not commit any change

Ask for Help If Unsure How to Do

  • If the task is not perfectly clear, you MUST not perform it, but ask for clarifications
    • When the task is complex, create a plan.md with 5 bullet points explaining what the plan is
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 · 44 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 448edf046e09

Subscribe to this mod's changes

git.delete is a skill published in the GitHub repository causify-ai/helpers (145 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 453 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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