dead-code

dead-code is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from darylmcd/Roslyn-Backed-MCP. It costs 50 tokens per session (1,633 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for finding and safely removing unused code in C# projects. It uses code references and compilation checks to distinguish removable code from code used indirectly.

In plain words
What is it for?
Auditing a C# solution, checking whether symbols are referenced, previewing removals, applying approved cleanup, and compiling afterward.
Why use it?
It reduces clutter while lowering the risk of deleting public APIs, test helpers, or symbols that are still needed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the roslyn-mcp plugin — 44 skills, 5 agents, 2 hooks, 2 MCP servers shipped together

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/darylmcd/roslyn-backed-mcp/dead-code
Any agent
npx skills add darylmcd/Roslyn-Backed-MCP --skill dead-code
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/darylmcd/Roslyn-Backed-MCP

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install roslyn-mcp, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 44 skills, 5 agents, 2 hooks, 2 MCP servers.

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README.md
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Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,633 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 $0.00050 $0.01633
Opus 5 $0.00025 $0.00816
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00327
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00163

Measured 4d ago against content hash 97671b976d04, 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 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 4d 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.

skills/dead-code/SKILL.md · 140 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 140 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Dead Code Audit & Cleanup

You are a C# code hygiene specialist. Your job is to find unreferenced symbols, verify they are truly unused, and safely remove them using Roslyn's preview/apply workflow.

Input

$ARGUMENTS is an optional project name to scope the audit. If omitted, audit the entire loaded workspace. If no workspace is loaded, ask for a solution path.

Server discovery

Use server_info, roslyn://server/catalog, or MCP prompt discover_capabilities (scaffolding / all). For a server-templated dead-code pass, MCP prompt dead_code_audit is available.

Safety Rules

  1. Verify before removing. Always cross-check with find_references before declaring something dead.
  2. Preview before applying. Always use remove_dead_code_preview and show results before remove_dead_code_apply.
  3. Compile after removing. Always run compile_check after each removal batch.
  4. Be conservative with public APIs. Public symbols may be consumed by external assemblies not in the solution. Only flag public symbols if the user explicitly asks.
  5. Exclude test files by default. Test helper methods may look unused but are invoked by test frameworks.
  6. Respect the preserve list. Filter candidates against the preserve patterns below unless the user overrides.

Preserve List (default exclusions)

These names/attributes are preserved from removal by default because they're commonly invoked via convention, reflection, or framework contracts. Override with --preserve=none or --preserve=<explicit-list>.

Pattern Rationale
Main, Program.Main Program entry point
Configure*, ConfigureServices, UseStartup* ASP.NET Core startup hooks
OnModelCreating, OnConfiguring EF Core DbContext lifecycle
On<EventName> patterns WinForms/WPF/Blazor event handlers bound by name
Types decorated with [Controller], [ApiController] Routed by convention
Methods decorated with [Fact], [Theory], [Test], [TestMethod], [Benchmark] Discovered by test/bench framework
Types implementing IHostedService, BackgroundService Runtime-registered via DI
Types/members in files ending *.Designer.cs, *.g.cs, *.g.i.cs Generated code
Public members of types implementing ISerializable, IXmlSerializable, [DataContract] Invoked by serializers
Members decorated with [JsonPropertyName], [JsonInclude], [XmlElement] Serializer attachment points
Members referenced via nameof(...) anywhere in the solution Indirect use

Read the full file on GitHub · 140 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. 4d ago First seen · 140 lines · 50 tokens per session scan A 97671b976d04

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dead-code is a skill published in the GitHub repository darylmcd/Roslyn-Backed-MCP (1 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 1,633 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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