notebook.delete_dead_code

notebook.delete_dead_code is a skill for Claude Code from causify-ai/helpers. It costs 16 tokens per session (266 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A cleanup tool that finds and removes unused code from a Jupyter Notebook and its paired utility file. Dead code is code that is no longer used.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for removing unused functions and their associated unit tests from notebook projects.
Why use it?
It reduces leftover functions and related tests that add clutter without contributing to the notebook.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: model in frontmatter; reads .claude/ paths.

Good fit It is for removing unused functions and their associated unit tests from notebook projects.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/causify-ai/helpers/notebook.delete_dead_code
Install

Getting it into your agent

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

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 266 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 3
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00016 $0.00266
Opus 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00106
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00053
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00027

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 5112155fd76f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

notebook.delete_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 1mo 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/notebook.delete_dead_code/SKILL.md · 34 lines

What it actually says

Goal

  • Given a Jupyter notebook, remove the dead code from the notebook and the paired utility file

Workflow

Follow Notebook Conventions

  • Read and follow .claude/skills/notebook.rules.md

Find Unused Functions

  • Find the functions in the notebook and in the paired utility file *_utils.py that are not used in the notebook
  • Print a summary of the found unused functions

Remove Unused Code

  • Remove the code of the unused functions from the notebook and from the paired utility file
  • Remove the unit tests associated to those unused functions, if any

Sync with Jupytext

  • At the end, sync the paired .py file with Jupytext following the conventions in # Code Architecture and Responsibility -> ## Utilities vs. Notebook Responsibilities in .claude/skills/notebook.rules.md

Verification

  • Confirm no remaining code references the removed functions
  • Run the notebook top to bottom following ## Testing Notebook in .claude/skills/notebook.rules.md and confirm it completes without errors
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. 1mo ago Changed · +5 lines 5112155fd76f
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 29 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 0ea1aec06ef3

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notebook.delete_dead_code is a skill published in the GitHub repository causify-ai/helpers (150 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 266 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-03.

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