Dead Crusade — Development skill for Claude Code
Unleash parallel Dead Code Purist agents to find and eliminate unused exports, orphaned files, commented-out blocks, and unreachable branches across the codebase.
How to install Dead Crusade
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/btachinardi-church-dead-crusade/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/btachinardi-church-dead-crusade && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/btachinardi/church/HEAD/commands/dead-crusade.md -o ~/.claude/skills/btachinardi-church-dead-crusade/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Dead Crusade does
description: Unleash parallel Dead Code Purist agents to find and eliminate unused exports, orphaned files, commented-out blocks, and unreachable branches across the codebase. No dead code survives. allowed-tools: Read, Glob, Grep, Bash, Task, AskUserQuestion argument-hint: [path] [--scope all|api|web] [--reap] [--severity critical|warning|info]
Dead Code Crusade
The Dead Code Reapers descend upon the codebase in PARALLEL FORMATION. Multiple squads, each specialized in hunting specif
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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