docs-lifecycle-sweep

A procedure for reviewing and cleaning up documentation. It checks each file, classifies it as keep, shorten, or remove, and prepares an action plan before changes are made.

In plain words
What is it for?
Auditing a docs folder, removing outdated files, closing documentation plans properly, and checking that cross-references still work.
Why use it?
Documentation becomes stale when old plans, audits, and duplicate explanations remain after work is finished. This process identifies that dead weight while preserving useful knowledge and working links.

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/stainless-code/codemap/docs-lifecycle-sweep
Any agent
npx skills add stainless-code/codemap --skill docs-lifecycle-sweep
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/stainless-code/codemap

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 164 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,592 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. 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 $0.00164 $0.01592
Opus 5 $0.00082 $0.00796
Sonnet 5 $0.00033 $0.00318
Haiku 4.5 $0.00016 $0.00159

Measured yesterday against content hash 7c5696b7ac76, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

docs-lifecycle-sweep 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 yesterday.

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.

.agents/skills/docs-lifecycle-sweep/SKILL.md · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Docs lifecycle sweep — the doc janitor

docs-governance defines what every doc should be. This skill is the how — it walks any doc-bearing surface, applies the spec mechanically, and produces a per-file action plan the user approves before anything is touched.

The promise: at the end of a sweep, every remaining file passes the existence test, every closed plan is lifted, every closed audit is either kept-with-justification or deleted-with-knowledge-lifted, every cross-reference still resolves, and there is no dead weight.

Procedure: WORKFLOW.md — enumerate → existence test → classify → report → execute on approval.

When to fire

User intent (any phrase is enough):

  • "clean up stale docs" / "doc janitor" / "doc sweep"
  • "audit docs lifecycle" / "compact audits" / "compact plans"
  • "are these audits still earning their keep"
  • "what's gone stale in docs/"
  • "delete tombstones" / "no tombstones, please"
  • "promote / lift / retire <doc>"
  • "is this audit closed properly"
  • "post-merge docs cleanup on PR #N"

Also fire proactively when:

  • Closing a Plan, Audit, or Research file via audit-pr-architecture, or any normal commit that ships a tracked roadmap item.
  • A repo-wide refactor changes paths or symbol names cited from docs (cross-reference rot risk).

Scope

The two surface tiers codemap has today:

Tier Substrate Sweep scope
B — repo-wide docs/ All 5 lifecycle types: architecture.md, roadmap.md, glossary.md, agents.md, etc. + plans/, research/, future audits/
0 — per-tooling-area .agents/, .cursor/, scripts/, templates/agents/ Each rule + skill — apply existence test; check Tier 1 always-on cost still earns its keep

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. yesterday First seen · 72 lines · 164 tokens per session scan A 7c5696b7ac76

Subscribe to this mod's changes

docs-lifecycle-sweep is a skill published in the GitHub repository stainless-code/codemap (8 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 164 tokens to every session and 1,592 once invoked, about $0.0008 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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