cleanup-codebase

cleanup-codebase is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OutlineDriven/odin-gemini-cli-extension. It costs 57 tokens per session (2,059 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of cleanup-codebase, Apache-2.0.

A set of guidelines for simplifying internal code by removing unused data, duplicate wrappers, and unnecessary abstractions.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for cleaning dead fields, redundant pass-through functions, stale configuration, and speculative internal structure.
Why use it?
It reduces code that adds maintenance work without providing useful behavior while you are already working nearby.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 57 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,059 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00057 $0.02059
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01030
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00412
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00206

Measured 4d ago against content hash 5dd9a64ae18b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cleanup-codebase 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 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.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to cleanup-codebase — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/cleanup-codebase/SKILL.md · 122 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 122 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.

Modern insight (2025): Kent Beck's Tidy First? thesis and Casey Muratori's dataflow-first design heuristic both converge on the same conclusion that this skill's compress-side operations operationalize — small, frequent, atomic cleanups embedded in the active commit stream beat scheduled "cleanup PRs" by a wide margin. Scheduled cleanups bundle unrelated concerns and become unreviewable; embedded cleanups stay reviewable because their scope is the file already in your hands.

See dead-fields for examples of dead struct fields, props, and class 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.

Read the full file on GitHub · 122 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. 4d ago First seen · 122 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 5dd9a64ae18b

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cleanup-codebase is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/odin-gemini-cli-extension (5 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 2,059 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to cleanup-codebase, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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