architecture-cleanup

architecture-cleanup is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from MartinPLarsen/claude-architecture-skills. It costs 134 tokens per session (1,994 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A static review of an architecture map that finds code, endpoints, data streams, configuration, or proposed nodes with no remaining code references.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a mapped repository for dead or legacy parts, inspect plain-language removal suggestions, and remove approved items through a branch and pull request.
Why use it?
It helps identify possible removals before new work adds more complexity. It reports only what the code shows, not whether something is unused in production.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Good fit Use it to review a mapped repository for dead or legacy parts, inspect plain-language removal suggestions, and remove approved items through a branch and pull request.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/martinplarsen/claude-architecture-skills/architecture-cleanup
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 MartinPLarsen/claude-architecture-skills --skill architecture-cleanup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MartinPLarsen/claude-architecture-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 134 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,994 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 $0.00134 $0.01994
Opus 5 $0.00067 $0.00997
Sonnet 5 $0.00027 $0.00399
Haiku 4.5 $0.00013 $0.00199

Measured 12d ago against content hash 4084a5a5c568, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architecture-cleanup 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 12d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (analyze-map.mjs, apply-overlay.mjs), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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.

architecture-cleanup/SKILL.md · 130 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 130 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Architecture Cleanup

Analyse an architecture-map (map.js) to find what can be safely removed, prove each candidate statically, and paint the findings back onto the map as a red removable overlay.

Core principle — advisor by default. Step 1 only reads code and annotates the map. It NEVER edits source. Removal happens only in Step 2, after the user's explicit approval, as a branch + PR. No runtime telemetry exists, so claims are "no static references found" — never "unused in production".

When to use

  • "Clean up / debloat the architecture", "find dead code", "what can I delete".
  • After mapping a repo and wanting to shrink it before adding features.
  • Not for line-level perf or refactor proposals — that's architecture-improve.
  • Recommended order: cleanup → improve (don't optimise code you're about to delete).

Input — map.js (ADR-010)

The input is <repo>/architecture-map/map.js (window.MAP_DATA). If it doesn't exist, build it first with the architecture-map skill, then run cleanup on the result. Node file-refs (path:line) and the status field are what cleanup cross-checks against the live code.

Step 1 — advisory pass (default)

  1. Ensure the map exists & is fresh. No map.js → build via architecture-map. A stale map gives stale findings, so re-map if the repo moved since it was generated.
  2. Git-snapshot the map FIRST (ADR-011). Before annotating, make sure map.js is committed (or git stash-clean), so backout is one git restore. The overlay is additive — original node data is only augmented, never overwritten — but the snapshot is the undo guarantee.
  3. Topology layer (deterministic). Run the helper to get the per-node worklist — inbound/ outbound edge counts, isolated flag, inboundFrom, blast-radius, the proposed-node list, and duplicate-tech groups:
    node <SKILL_DIR>/analyze-map.mjs <repo>/architecture-map/map.js > /tmp/worklist.json
    
  4. Static cross-check (judgment). For each candidate, grep its path:line refs in the real code and assign a confidence tier (table below). The helper gives topology; grep gives the code half. Dynamic/string-based calls grep can't follow → 🟡, never 🔴.
  5. Bucket into the 7-category taxonomy. Every finding = category + tier + evidence (path:line + ref-count) + blastRadius. Build a findings.json array (one object per node or edge — see helper --selftest for the shape). ⚫️ guesses are NOT surfaced.
  6. Write the overlay (additive). Flag the map's nodes/edges removable without touching their data:
    node <SKILL_DIR>/apply-overlay.mjs <repo>/architecture-map/map.js /tmp/findings.json > /tmp/map.js \
      && mv /tmp/map.js <repo>/architecture-map/map.js
    
    If the repo's viewer predates the overlay, refresh it so the red toggle appears: cp <ARCH_MAP_SKILL_DIR>/assets/index.html <repo>/architecture-map/.
  7. Report — plain-language finding cards. Hand the user one plain-language card per finding (format: references/finding-card-and-issues.md — What it is / Why / What you gain / Risk, with the technical evidence folded at the bottom). Grouped by category, then tier. Plus the open command: open <repo>/architecture-map/index.html shows a 🔴 Removable toggle (on by default); clicking a node shows tier + evidence + blast-radius.

Read the full file on GitHub · 130 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 12d ago First seen · 130 lines · 134 tokens per session scan A 4084a5a5c568

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architecture-cleanup is a skill published in the GitHub repository MartinPLarsen/claude-architecture-skills (3 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 134 tokens to every session and 1,994 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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