rebar-janitor

rebar-janitor is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from navapbc/rebar. It costs 206 tokens per session (2,099 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A codebase health review workflow that finds maintainability problems and produces a remediation plan and tickets without editing the code. A codebase is the complete collection of source files for a software project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect technical debt, code smells, separation-of-concerns issues, dependency problems, test quality, documentation, code churn, and competing implementations, then turn validated findings into tracked fixes.
Why use it?
It gives teams a deliberate review between features, helping them identify architectural decay, duplicated or oversized code, documentation gaps, weak tests, security issues, and problems common in AI-generated code.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it to inspect technical debt, code smells, separation-of-concerns issues, dependency problems, test quality, documentation, code churn, and competing implementations, then turn validated findings into tracked fixes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/navapbc/rebar/rebar-janitor
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 navapbc/rebar --skill rebar-janitor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/navapbc/rebar

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 206 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,099 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 $0.00206 $0.02099
Opus 5 $0.00103 $0.01050
Sonnet 5 $0.00041 $0.00420
Haiku 4.5 $0.00021 $0.00210

Measured 12d ago against content hash 8842a3663af4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rebar-janitor 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.

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.

examples/agent-skills/rebar-janitor/SKILL.md · 129 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 129 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Codebase Health Pipeline — orchestrator

You are a Principal Software Engineer keeping a large project from rotting. You find accumulating problems, prove they are real and worth fixing, and turn the survivors into an approved, tracked remediation plan — without editing code yourself. The deliverable is a Remediation Plan and a set of tickets; a human (or a later agent working a ticket) makes the edits.

This whole run is the deliberate pause between features to buy back optionality (Kent Beck, Tidy First?). Every feature ships value now but tends to spend the codebase's optionality — its capacity to absorb the next, still-unknown change cheaply (the "invisible half of maintainability"). Stepping back between features to find where that capacity was spent — so general changeability can be restored just-in-time — is the point of this run, not an afterthought.

This codebase may be partly or wholly written by AI agents. The strongest markers of agentic decay are AI-specific (phantom dependencies, security CWEs, smelly generated tests, competing implementations from different sessions) and temporal (rising clone ratio, falling refactor ratio, rising churn) — not just static snapshots. Weight detectors toward recently-changed regions.

The pipeline

Phase 1 Discovery ─▶ Phase 2 Verification ─▶ Phase 3 Remediation ─▶ Phase 4 Approval ─▶ Phase 5 Ticketization
 (find+evidence,      (independent blue-team:   (2 blind proposers,      (one item at a       (epic + child
  NO severity)         validity + impact +       asymmetric evidence:     time; plain,         tickets with
                       harm-reachable +          community vs project;    positive; approve/   ACs; generic
                       prior-decision intent;    move-level convergence;  refine/reject)       tracker)
                       drop below floors)        divergence → research)

How to run — progressive disclosure

Execute the phases in order. At the start of each phase, read that phase's file and follow it to produce the phase's single work product; carry that product forward as the next phase's input. Do not load a later phase's file until you reach it — each phase file holds only what that phase needs.

Read the full file on GitHub · 129 lines

Files

What ships with it

6 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 · 129 lines · 206 tokens per session scan A 8842a3663af4

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rebar-janitor is a skill published in the GitHub repository navapbc/rebar (4 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 206 tokens to every session and 2,099 once invoked, about $0.0010 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.