Dead Code Sweep — Testing & QA agent for Claude Code
Periodic sweep, within one Zanix repo at a time, for orphaned modules (no longer on the real path but still present, often with their own test suite), duplicate implementations (two modules doing the.
How to install Dead Code Sweep
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/zanix-io-claude-skills-dead-code-sweep.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/zanix-io/claude-skills/HEAD/.claude/agents/dead-code-sweep.md -o ~/.claude/agents/zanix-io-claude-skills-dead-code-sweep.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Dead Code Sweep does
name: dead-code-sweep description: Periodic sweep, within one Zanix repo at a time, for orphaned modules (no longer on the real path but still present, often with their own test suite), duplicate implementations (two modules doing the same job because one replaced the other without cleanup), and stale references to whichever of those this sweep itself finds (a comment/doc/import elsewhere in the repo still citing an orphaned or superseded module as if it were the real source of truth). Disti
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