dead-code-sweep

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Dead Code Sweep

Systematic identification and removal of dead code, redundant implementations, and orphaned artifacts in codebases — particularly those maintained by coding agents with limited context windows.

Why Agent-Maintained Codebases Accumulate Cruft

Coding agents operate within narrow context windows. When refactoring, they often:

  • Re-implement functionality without finding and removing the original
  • Leave compatibility shims for interfaces that no longer exist
  • Abandon helper functions after inlining their logic
  • Create new files without deleting the ones they replace
  • Duplicate type definitions across module boundaries
  • Leave imports for symbols they stopped using mid-refactor

This cruft compounds. Each orphaned artifact misleads the next agent (or human), who wastes context budget reading code that does nothing.

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