Find Dead Code — Development skill for Claude Code
Finds dead code (unreachable, unused, deprecated) in the project.
How to install Find Dead Code
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/remiasselin42-claude-config-find-dead-code/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/remiasselin42-claude-config-find-dead-code && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/RemiAsselin42/claude-config/HEAD/commands/find-dead-code.md -o ~/.claude/skills/remiasselin42-claude-config-find-dead-code/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Find Dead Code does
description: 'Finds dead code (unreachable, unused, deprecated) in the project.' argument-hint: '[language] [path] — e.g. shell, typescript src/, python, javascript src/utils.js' allowed-tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash(npm run type-check:*), Bash(npx tsc:*) context: fork agent: agent
Arguments
"$ARGUMENTS"
Parse `$ARGUMENTS`:
- Language (required): first word — e.g.
shell,typescript,javascript,python,go,rust… - Path (optional): second argument — otherwise sca
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