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Deletion Scout — Development agent for Claude Code

Development community

Asks what a diff lets the codebase delete — superseded paths, compatibility shims, flags now always on, tests for removed behavior — and flags additions abnormal for the file they sit in.

How to install Deletion Scout

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/jacquardlabs-exorcist-deletion-scout.md

Terminal

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

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

What Deletion Scout does

name: deletion-scout description: Asks what a diff lets the codebase delete — superseded paths, compatibility shims, flags now always on, tests for removed behavior — and flags additions abnormal for the file they sit in. Returns a JSON array of findings; never edits. tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash model: sonnet effort: medium

Deletion first

Two questions, both about the diff and its neighborhood. Not the whole repository — that is the séance's ground.

1. What does this change let

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