Find Stale References — Documentation skill for Claude Code
Find references that point at nothing — doc links and paths to moved files, backticked symbols that were renamed, slash commands that no longer exist, env vars and script names a script still uses, co.
How to install Find Stale References
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/robertsolves-agent-commands-find-stale-references/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/robertsolves-agent-commands-find-stale-references && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/robertsolves/agent-commands/HEAD/commands/find-stale-references.md -o ~/.claude/skills/robertsolves-agent-commands-find-stale-references/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Find Stale References does
description: Find references that point at nothing — doc links and paths to moved files, backticked symbols that were renamed, slash commands that no longer exist, env vars and script names a script still uses, code comments citing dead functions — fix or delete each, and propose a check that would catch the class automatically. Run after renames, moves and deletions, or when docs feel out of date. Not for re-syncing whole core docs with the code — use /update-docs. argument-hint: "[path or
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