safe-remove-code

A code-removal workflow for deleting specified patterns across multiple project files while checking the result and keeping a rollback path.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for validated, reversible removal of repeated code patterns across a project.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of removing the wrong code or leaving the project in a broken state during broad cleanup.

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/cowwoc/cat/safe-remove-code
Any agent
npx skills add cowwoc/cat --skill safe-remove-code
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/cowwoc/cat

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 19 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 4,379 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan B 1 finding. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00019 $0.04379
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.02190
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00876
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00438

Measured 2d ago against content hash 3ed152c923d7, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade B, and why

safe-remove-code scanned grade B with 1 finding 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.

Reads agent configuration directoriesmediumAgent snooping

.claude/, .codex/, .gemini/ hold keys, settings and other credentials a mod has no legitimate need for.

grep -n "$pattern" ~/.claude/hooks/example-hook.sh || echo " No matches"
plugin/skills/safe-remove-code/SKILL.md · 590 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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 · 590 lines · 19 tokens per session scan B 3ed152c923d7

Subscribe to this mod's changes

safe-remove-code is a skill published in the GitHub repository cowwoc/cat (101 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 4,379 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it B with 1 finding (reads agent configuration directories). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.