Agent skill

Dr Audit Dead

Audit dimension - find code that is no longer used, via a reference census over every top-level symbol, one package per invocation.

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Install Dr Audit Dead

skills CLI

$ npx skills add AHepi/DeepReason --skill dr-audit-dead -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install AHepi/DeepReason dr-audit-dead --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AHepi/DeepReason.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/dr-audit-dead .claude/skills/dr-audit-dead && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Paste into Claude Code

Install the "dr-audit-dead" agent skill from https://github.com/AHepi/DeepReason/tree/main/.claude/skills/dr-audit-dead into .claude/skills/dr-audit-dead/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "dr-audit-dead", then confirm the skill loads.

Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

$skill-installer

$skill-installer install https://github.com/AHepi/DeepReason/tree/main/.claude/skills/dr-audit-dead

Type this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add AHepi/DeepReason --skill dr-audit-dead -a codex

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install AHepi/DeepReason dr-audit-dead --agent codex

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AHepi/DeepReason.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/dr-audit-dead .agents/skills/dr-audit-dead && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.

Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/

Paste into Codex

Install the "dr-audit-dead" agent skill from https://github.com/AHepi/DeepReason/tree/main/.claude/skills/dr-audit-dead into .agents/skills/dr-audit-dead/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "dr-audit-dead", then confirm the skill loads.

Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add AHepi/DeepReason --skill dr-audit-dead -a cursor

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install AHepi/DeepReason dr-audit-dead --agent cursor

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AHepi/DeepReason.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/dr-audit-dead .cursor/skills/dr-audit-dead && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.

Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/

Paste into Cursor

Install the "dr-audit-dead" agent skill from https://github.com/AHepi/DeepReason/tree/main/.claude/skills/dr-audit-dead into .cursor/skills/dr-audit-dead/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "dr-audit-dead", then confirm the skill loads.

Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

gemini skills install

$ gemini skills install https://github.com/AHepi/DeepReason.git --path .claude/skills/dr-audit-dead

--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add AHepi/DeepReason --skill dr-audit-dead -a gemini-cli

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install AHepi/DeepReason dr-audit-dead --agent gemini-cli

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AHepi/DeepReason.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/dr-audit-dead .gemini/skills/dr-audit-dead && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.

Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into Gemini CLI

Install the "dr-audit-dead" agent skill from https://github.com/AHepi/DeepReason/tree/main/.claude/skills/dr-audit-dead into .gemini/skills/dr-audit-dead/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "dr-audit-dead", then confirm the skill loads.

Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install AHepi/DeepReason dr-audit-dead

Installs for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

skills CLI

$ npx skills add AHepi/DeepReason --skill dr-audit-dead -a github-copilot

Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AHepi/DeepReason.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/dr-audit-dead .github/skills/dr-audit-dead && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.

GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into GitHub Copilot

Install the "dr-audit-dead" agent skill from https://github.com/AHepi/DeepReason/tree/main/.claude/skills/dr-audit-dead into .github/skills/dr-audit-dead/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "dr-audit-dead", then confirm the skill loads.

GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

skills CLI

$ npx skills add AHepi/DeepReason --skill dr-audit-dead -a opencode

OpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.

GitHub CLI

$ gh skill install AHepi/DeepReason dr-audit-dead --agent opencode

Project scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.

Manual copy

$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AHepi/DeepReason.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/dr-audit-dead .opencode/skills/dr-audit-dead && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.

OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/

Paste into OpenCode

Install the "dr-audit-dead" agent skill from https://github.com/AHepi/DeepReason/tree/main/.claude/skills/dr-audit-dead into .opencode/skills/dr-audit-dead/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "dr-audit-dead", then confirm the skill loads.

OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.

Facts

Skill name: dr-audit-dead
GitHub stars: 141
Token cost: ~777 tokens
SKILL.md length: 408 words
Files: 1
Skills in repo: 30
Repo updated: Sep 10, 2026
First seen: Oct 7, 2026
Licence: MIT

At a glance

Audit dimension - find code that is no longer used, via a reference census over every top-level symbol, one package per invocation.

Works in 2 steps: Symbol census → For each symbol NAME, count referencing…
SKILL.md covers Operations (for the next…, GATE, Activation plant (first run) and Outlets
Calls rg

What it does

Dr Audit Dead is an agent skill from AHepi/DeepReason. Audit dimension - find code that is no longer used, via a reference census over every top-level symbol, one package per invocation. Invoked by dr-audit-orchestrator when dead.md is missing or has pending package rows.

Its SKILL.md is about 780 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

The licence is MIT.

Example prompts

“/dr-audit-dead”

Workflow steps

2 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

Symbol census
For each symbol NAME, count referencing files outside its defining

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 9607fba. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
Shell commands in SKILL.md call:
- rg
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Dr Audit Dead loads about 777 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 58 tokens; SKILL.md has 408 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it: ~58
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches: ~777

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from AHepi/DeepReason at commit 9607fba, republished under its MIT licence (© AHepi). 408 words, ~777 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/dr-audit-dead/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).

name: dr-audit-dead
description: Audit dimension - find code that is no longer used, via a reference census over every top-level symbol, one package per invocation. Invoked by dr-audit-orchestrator when dead.md is missing or has pending package rows.

Audit: dead code

Entry: LEDGER.md exists; dead.md missing or contains a package row marked pending. Exit for one invocation: ONE package's census complete, its row flipped to done. The router re-invokes until no pending rows remain (S1: the loop lives in the router).

On first invocation, write the package list into dead.md: ls -d src/deepreason/*/ src/deepreason/*.py, one row each, all pending.

Operations (for the next pending package P)

Symbol census: rg -n '^(def|class) [A-Za-z_]' <P> --type py > proof/dead-<P>-symbols.txt
For each symbol NAME, count referencing files outside its defining file: rg -l -w 'NAME' src/ tests/ scripts/ tools/ | grep -v <defining-file> Hits ≥ 1 → verdict referenced (no LEDGER row; tally only). Hits = 0 → step 2b. 2b. Intra-file use check (a symbol called only from its own file is wired, not dead): rg -c -w 'NAME' <defining-file> Count ≥ 2 (the definition line plus at least one use) → verdict referenced, note intra-file (tally only). Count = 1 → step 3.
String-reference scan (dynamic dispatch, registries, config strings): rg -l "['\"]NAME['\"]" src/ tests/ scripts/ tools/ Hits ≥ 1 → verdict dynamic-ref, row it with the hit file (these are load-bearing but invisible to imports — worth a row, not a prompt). Hits = 0 → step 4.
Entry-point scan: rg -l 'NAME' pyproject.toml. Hit → verdict entry-point. No hit → verdict candidate-dead, row it, disposition parked, both scan outputs saved to proof/dead-<id>.txt.
Append the package's tally line to dead.md (P: S symbols, R referenced, D dynamic-ref, C candidate-dead) and flip its row to done.

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GATE

Pass for the invocation: the package row is done, its tally line exists, and every candidate-dead row cites a proof file containing BOTH empty scans (G2 — "dead" is only sayable with the two searches pasted). Verdict labels: referenced | dynamic-ref | entry-point | candidate-dead.

candidate-dead is the strongest claim this worker may make (X3). Deletion needs a dr-change-orchestrator tranche; the PARKED prompt says so and names the symbol, file, and proof.

Activation plant (first run)

Row a symbol that step 2 provably finds referenced (pick any imported name) as if it were a candidate; the GATE's proof-file check must refuse the row (no empty-scan proof exists). Remove the planted row, paste the refusal and the removal.

Outlets

Situation	Outlet
Impulse to delete now	PARK — removal prompt, route dr-change-orchestrator
Symbol used only by tests	verdict `referenced`, note `tests-only` in the row — parked prompt optional
Census too large for one window	flip the package back to `pending` with a `resume-at: NAME` note; the LEDGER carries the position

Files

Just SKILL.md in .claude/skills/dr-audit-dead of AHepi/DeepReason.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 9607fba

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Questions about Dr Audit Dead

What does Dr Audit Dead do?

Audit dimension - find code that is no longer used, via a reference census over every top-level symbol, one package per invocation. Dr Audit Dead is an agent skill from AHepi/DeepReason. Audit dimension - find code that is no longer used, via a reference census over every top-level symbol, one package per invocation.

How do I install Dr Audit Dead in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add AHepi/DeepReason --skill dr-audit-dead -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/dr-audit-dead in AHepi/DeepReason) into .claude/skills/dr-audit-dead in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Dr Audit Dead in Codex?

Run `npx skills add AHepi/DeepReason --skill dr-audit-dead -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/dr-audit-dead in AHepi/DeepReason) into .agents/skills/dr-audit-dead in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Dr Audit Dead in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add AHepi/DeepReason --skill dr-audit-dead -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/dr-audit-dead, .gemini/skills/dr-audit-dead, .github/skills/dr-audit-dead and .opencode/skills/dr-audit-dead in your project.

What does Dr Audit Dead need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Dr Audit Dead needs the command-line tools its instructions call (rg).

Does Dr Audit Dead access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Dr Audit Dead safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Dr Audit Dead use?

Dr Audit Dead is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Dr Audit Dead use?

About 777 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.1k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Dr Audit Dead?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Dr Audit Dead: Dimensions (thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist, 74k stars), Dead End Pages (thedaviddias/Front-End-Checklist, 74k stars), Modeling Dimension Tables (PostHog/posthog, 40k stars) and Dead Dependencies (redis/RedisInsight, 8.9k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Dr Audit Dead?

AHepi (a GitHub user) maintains it in AHepi/DeepReason, which has 141 GitHub stars. The repository holds 30 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 10, 2026.

Source: AHepi/DeepReason on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.

Install Dr Audit Dead

Facts

At a glance

What it does

Example prompts

Workflow steps

What it can do on your machine

Tool permissions

Runs code

Network

Credentials

Context cost

Safety

SKILL.md

Audit: dead code

Operations (for the next pending package P)

GATE

Activation plant (first run)

Outlets

Files

Compare with similar skills

Similar skills

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Questions about Dr Audit Dead