cleanup-codebase

cleanup-codebase is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin. It costs 35 tokens per session (1,913 once invoked), scanned C, original, Apache-2.0.

A code cleanup guide for removing dead code, duplicate logic, redundant wrappers, and unnecessary configuration while working in nearby code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during an existing code change to remove unused fields, simplify pass-through functions, and clear out stale flags or configuration branches.
Why use it?
It reduces code that no longer serves a purpose and limits extra layers that make future changes harder to understand.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the odin plugin — 54 skills, 2 agents shipped together

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/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/cleanup-codebase
Any agent
npx skills add OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin --skill cleanup-codebase
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install odin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 54 skills, 2 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for cleanup-codebase

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/cleanup-codebase.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/cleanup-codebase)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/cleanup-codebase"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/outlinedriven/odin-claude-plugin/cleanup-codebase.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 35 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,913 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. 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 $0.00035 $0.01913
Opus 5 $0.00017 $0.00957
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00383
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00191

Measured 4d ago against content hash 7d0e21d15686, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

cleanup-codebase scanned grade C with 1 finding 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 4d 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.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

5. **Apply the deletion**. `rm -rf` the file, then `git add <path>` so the deletion is staged for step 4's atomic commit; or precise `Edit` for partial removal. Never comment-out.
skills/cleanup-codebase/SKILL.md · 119 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 119 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Cleanup codebase: local simplicity, ruthlessly applied

Code rots in two directions: outward (drift from the original design) and downward (accretion of dead state, redundant indirection, speculative ceremony). This skill addresses the second. The thesis is local: you are already in nearby code for some other reason; while you are there, remove what does not earn its keep.

See dead-fields for examples of dead fields, properties, and members. See redundant-wrappers for examples of single-line passthrough functions that should be inlined. See dead-config for stale feature flags, environment variables, and dead config branches.


Mandates, not suggestions

These are mandates, not suggestions. Internalize them as rules; do not paraphrase.

1. Minimize concepts, duplication, and ceremony.

Every concept the reader has to hold in their head has a cost. Every duplicated piece of logic has two places to drift apart. Every ceremonial wrapper, factory, or builder that does not protect a real boundary is a tax on every future reader. Reducing concepts is not the same as reducing lines. It is reducing the number of distinct things a reader has to track.

2. One real owner per contract. No mirroring, no wrappers unless they remove real coupling.

A "contract" is the truth about what some piece of state means or what some operation does. It must have exactly one owner. Mirroring (two structures holding the same field; two services maintaining the same cached state) is a guaranteed-future-bug pattern. Wrappers are coupling-removal tools: if a wrapper just renames or forwards without removing coupling, it is ceremony.

3. Local simplicity over speculative abstraction. Add indirection only when it removes real coupling or protects a real boundary.

"Speculative" means "I might need this later." You will not need it later in the form you imagine now, and the indirection you add now will make the actual future change harder. Indirection earns its keep when it removes coupling that currently exists, or when it protects a current boundary (process, untrusted-input, async/sync seam). Otherwise it is dead-weight ceremony.

Read the full file on GitHub · 119 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 4d ago First seen · 119 lines · 35 tokens per session scan C 7d0e21d15686

Subscribe to this mod's changes

cleanup-codebase is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/odin-claude-plugin (35 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 35 tokens to every session and 1,913 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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