curating-code

A code-cleanup review that scans a codebase for unused code, unnecessary complexity, repeated sections, and inconsistent coding patterns, then offers selected fixes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect a whole project or a specific folder or file, produce a prioritized cleanup report, and apply the fixes you choose.
Why use it?
It helps find the maintenance problems that accumulate when code is written quickly or by different people. You can review the findings before changes are made.

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/dbinky/dbinky-skill-set/curating-code
Any agent
npx skills add dbinky/dbinky-skill-set --skill curating-code
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dbinky/dbinky-skill-set

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 463 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 $0.00041 $0.00463
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00231
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00093
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00046

Measured 2d ago against content hash dce05267ac7e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

curating-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 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.

skills/curating-code/SKILL.md · 49 lines

What it actually says

Codebase Curation

Analyze a codebase (or targeted path) for vibe-coding cruft using four parallel specialist agents. Consolidates findings into a prioritized report, lets you select which issues to address, and implements the fixes.

Usage

/curating-code              # Sweep the entire codebase
/curating-code src/          # Curate a specific directory
/curating-code lib/auth.ts   # Curate a specific file

Pipeline

Scope & Detect → [Dead Code Hunter | Complexity Reducer | Duplication Consolidator | Consistency Enforcer] → Consolidate → Report → Select → Implement

Specialists

Agent Finding Prefix Focus
Dead Code Hunter DC- Unused functions, unreachable branches, orphaned files, stale imports
Complexity Reducer CX- Over-abstraction, deep nesting, convoluted control flow, god functions
Duplication Consolidator DU- Near-identical blocks, copy-paste patterns, consolidation opportunities
Consistency Enforcer CN- Divergent patterns, mixed conventions, conflicting approaches

Process

Read and follow the orchestrator instructions exactly:

Orchestrator file: agents/curation-orchestrator.md (relative to this plugin's root)

The orchestrator will:

  1. Verify git repository and resolve target scope
  2. Detect languages and frameworks, load applicable curation rule files
  3. Dispatch all four specialist agents in parallel
  4. Consolidate findings: deduplicate, cross-reference, resolve conflicts, assign tiers
  5. Present a categorized curation report (Critical / Important / Consider / Cosmetic)
  6. Let you select which findings to address (by tier or individually)
  7. Dispatch the curator implementer for selected fixes

IMPORTANT: Read the orchestrator file using the path ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/agents/curation-orchestrator.md and follow it exactly.

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 · 49 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A dce05267ac7e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

curating-code is a skill published in the GitHub repository dbinky/dbinky-skill-set (5 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 463 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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