Setup Dead Weight Audit — Security skill for Claude Code
Audit Claude setup files for dead-weight instructions and config entries that would not change output or behavior on a typical software task.
How to install Setup Dead Weight Audit
Installs to ~/.claude/commands/longieirl-ai-tools-setup-dead-weight-audit.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/longieirl/ai-tools/HEAD/.claude/commands/setup-dead-weight-audit.md -o ~/.claude/commands/longieirl-ai-tools-setup-dead-weight-audit.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Setup Dead Weight Audit does
name: setup-dead-weight-audit description: Audit Claude setup files for dead-weight instructions and config entries that would not change output or behavior on a typical software task tags: [meta, setup, maintenance]
Setup Dead-Weight Audit
Goal
Audit my Claude setup and identify instructions or configuration entries that produce no observable difference on a typical task.
For each flagged item:
- Show where it appears
- Explain why it is dead weight
- Classify the type of issu
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Full documentation available on GitHub
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