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Deadskills — Data skill for Claude Code

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💀 Find the agent skills you never use.

How to install Deadskills

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open anandsaini18/deadskills and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Deadskills does

💀 Find the agent skills you never use. Local-first analytics for Claude Code & Codex skills.

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README

![deadskills — Find the agent skills you never use](assets/banner.png)

Every installed skill adds its name and description to every prompt you send. That cost is paid on every message, whether the skill gets used or not. `deadskills` reads your local transcripts and shows which skills earn their seat, and which ones are probably safe to remove.

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Quick start

**Requires Node 18+.** Auto detects Claude Code (`~/.claude`) and Codex (`~/.codex`) when those directories exist. No config, no login, no telemetry.

npx deadskills

That is the whole workflow. Everything below is reference.

![Example report from npx deadskills](assets/screenshot.png)

Install

npx deadskills               # one-off run, always latest (recommended)
npm install -g deadskills    # global install: run deadskills anywhere

From source (development):

git clone https://github.com/anandsaini18/deadskills
cd deadskills
make install && make link    # deadskills on PATH from local build

Zero runtime dependencies. The published package is one ~22 KB file you can read in a sitting.

Commands

Command	What it does
`deadskills`	Full report for all detected agents
`deadskills dead`	List dead skills only
`deadskills doctor`	Parse health: are your transcripts being read correctly?
`deadskills --since 30d`	Limit analysis to a window (`30d`, `8w`, `6m`, or an ISO date)
`deadskills --json`	Machine readable output (schema)