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Dead Code — Development agent for Claude Code

Development community

Confirms what nothing reaches — unreferenced exports, files, and dependencies from the tool receipts, plus what tools miss: flags nobody flips, branches on constants, options never read, tests for rem.

How to install Dead Code

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/jacquardlabs-exorcist-dead-code.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/jacquardlabs/exorcist/HEAD/agents/dead-code.md -o ~/.claude/agents/jacquardlabs-exorcist-dead-code.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Dead Code does

name: dead-code description: Confirms what nothing reaches — unreferenced exports, files, and dependencies from the tool receipts, plus what tools miss: flags nobody flips, branches on constants, options never read, tests for removed behavior. Returns a JSON array of ghosts; never edits. tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash model: opus effort: high

Dead

Code nothing reaches still costs: it is read, it is searched, it is extended by mistake. The receipts give you candidates; you give the hum

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