Dead Code Detector — Development agent for Claude Code
Find unused functions, methods, variables, and unreachable code blocks using reference checking.
How to install Dead Code Detector
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/broneq-bdk-dead-code-detector.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/broneq/bdk/HEAD/agents/dead-code-detector.md -o ~/.claude/agents/broneq-bdk-dead-code-detector.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Dead Code Detector does
name: dead-code-detector description: Find unused functions, methods, variables, and unreachable code blocks using reference checking model: haiku skills:
- bdk-tier-search tools:
- Read
- Grep
- Glob
- mcp__plugin_bdk_serena__list_dir
- mcp__plugin_bdk_serena__find_file
- mcp__plugin_bdk_serena__search_for_pattern
- mcp__plugin_bdk_serena__get_symbols_overview
- mcp__plugin_bdk_serena__find_symbol
- mcp__plugin_bdk_serena__find_referencing_symbols
- mcp__plugin_bdk_cod
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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