spectre-prune

spectre-prune is a skill for Claude Code from joenandez/spectre. It costs 78 tokens per session (1,096 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A conservative cleanup workflow for finding and removing confirmed-unused code and development leftovers.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to clean a specified commit, staged or unstaged work, session, or file scope, and report items that are not safe to remove automatically.
Why use it?
It reduces clutter from dead imports, unused exports, debug logging, commented-out blocks, duplication, and other obsolete artifacts while leaving uncertain cases for human review.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it to clean a specified commit, staged or unstaged work, session, or file scope, and report items that are not safe to remove automatically.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/joenandez/spectre/spectre-prune
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.

Any agent
npx skills add joenandez/spectre --skill spectre-prune
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/joenandez/spectre

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 78 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,096 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00078 $0.01096
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.00548
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00219
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00110

Measured 2d ago against content hash 7ae59b2931bb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

spectre-prune 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.

plugins/spectre-codex/skills/spectre-prune/SKILL.md · 60 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 60 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

prune

Find and remove dead code/artifacts from recent work. Conservative by default: investigate and validate before deleting; uncertain items stay in place and are reported in-thread.

Inputs

  • $ARGUMENTS — optional scope. A commit_id/SHA, unstaged/staged, context/session, a scoped file list, or --orchestrated when a parent workflow owns the next step. If ambiguous -> ask which scope mode. If a provided commit_id is invalid or not in history -> stop and ask for a valid ref.
  • FEATURE_ROOT — explicit feature name/root or one descendant feature artifact.

Working Set

  • Reuse a managed FEATURE_ROOT only when explicit/current-thread evidence ties it to this work (physical directory wins; never branch/recency/lifecycle/scans); distinct work ignores ambient roots. Otherwise, including on collision, standalone MUST first load and follow Skill(spectre-feature-root) through DONE; orchestrated calls escalate. Keep writes beneath it and pass it unchanged.
  • Resolve scope late at runtime:
    • commit_range: union of committed files from {commit_id}^..HEAD (including the commit), staged, unstaged, and untracked. If commit_id == HEAD, use staged + unstaged + untracked.
    • unstaged/staged: union of staged + unstaged + untracked.
    • context: ask for the session files and wait.
  • Respect .gitignore, package/tsconfig context, generated-file boundaries, and repo-local conventions. Paths are repo-root relative in reports.

Outputs + DONE

  • Confirmed-safe cleanup edits only; in orchestrated mode, production/source only—never tests/fixtures.
  • Compact in-thread summary: safe removals (file:line, what, why safe), manual review, exclusions, impact, ESLint-debt notes. Write no cleanup/evidence artifact.
  • DONE when: every removed item was validated CONFIRMED_SAFE; every UNCERTAIN/UNSAFE item remains untouched and appears in Manual Review; standalone affected checks pass or a failed cleanup edit is rolled back; no --no-verify, eslint-disable, @ts-ignore, or @ts-expect-error was introduced; and the in-thread summary is complete.

Read the full file on GitHub · 60 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. 2d ago Changed · +2 lines 7ae59b2931bb
  2. 7d ago Changed · +1 lines · -29 tokens per session d038887cfaf5
  3. 12d ago First seen · 57 lines · 107 tokens per session scan A c105ad06ff9d

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spectre-prune is a skill published in the GitHub repository joenandez/spectre (161 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 78 tokens to every session and 1,096 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.