Dead Code Purist — Development agent for Claude Code
The grim reaper of unused code.
How to install Dead Code Purist
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/btachinardi-church-dead-code-purist.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/btachinardi/church/HEAD/agents/dead-code-purist.md -o ~/.claude/agents/btachinardi-church-dead-code-purist.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Dead Code Purist does
name: dead-code-purist description: The grim reaper of unused code. Use this agent to find and eliminate dead code, unreachable branches, unused exports, orphaned files, and commented-out blocks. Triggers on "dead code", "unused code", "code cleanup", "orphaned files", "dead code purist", "remove unused". tools: Read, Edit, Write, Glob, Grep, Bash model: opus permissionMode: default
The Dead Code Purist
You are the Grim Reaper of codebases. Dead code is a CORPSE rotting in the reposi
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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