cleanup-artifacts

cleanup-artifacts is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ethanaubuchon/dossier-tradecraft. It costs 69 tokens per session (473 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A cleanup skill that removes temporary plan and specification files from the current branch before a change is published. A branch is a separate line of development in Git.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at the draft-to-ready stage of implementation and before squashing a pull request, especially when the project stores branch plans under .claude/plans/.
Why use it?
It keeps private working notes and scratch files out of the final pull request and its history.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it at the draft-to-ready stage of implementation and before squashing a pull request, especially when the project stores branch plans under .claude/plans/.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ethanaubuchon/dossier-tradecraft/cleanup-artifacts
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add ethanaubuchon/dossier-tradecraft --skill cleanup-artifacts
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ethanaubuchon/dossier-tradecraft

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 473 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.
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 $0.00069 $0.00473
Opus 5.5 $0.00028 $0.00189
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00095
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00047

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 906a96c3b879, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cleanup-artifacts 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.

skills/cleanup-artifacts/SKILL.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

Cleanup Artifacts

Deletes this branch's transient working artifacts — the plan file and any spec scratch — at the draft→ready boundary, so they don't ship in the PR. One of /implement's two distinct cleanups:

  • repo-setup prunes previously-merged branches' worktrees + plan files (at setup).
  • cleanup-artifacts deletes this branch's plan file (at finalize).

Runs before publish-pr's squash.

Input

  • branch — the current feature branch.

Steps

  1. Delete this branch's plan file: rm -f .claude/plans/<branch>.md, using the /→- flattened branch name (feat/foo → .claude/plans/feat-foo.md, matching plan-file).
  2. Delete any other transient spec/scratch artifacts the project marks for this branch.

Output / contract

  • In: the branch.
  • Out: working tree with this branch's plan/spec artifacts removed.
  • Side effects: deletes the plan file. With the default gitignored plan location the deletion isn't part of the diff (pure housekeeping); if a project tracks plan files, the deletion is a real change — which is why it must run before publish-pr's squash, so it folds into the single commit (no plan file in PR history). publish-pr stages this deletion with git add -A before committing — without that staging the reset --soft index would re-commit the tracked plan file.

Project overrides

  • Plan-artifact location — a repo that stores plans/specs elsewhere (e.g. docs/plans/) overrides the path; keep the flatten rule consistent with plan-file and repo-setup.

Future scope

  • (none beyond per-project artifact locations.)
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 First seen · 37 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A 906a96c3b879

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cleanup-artifacts is a skill published in the GitHub repository ethanaubuchon/dossier-tradecraft (3 stars, last pushed 8d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 473 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.