Agent skill

Maintain

by openwpm in openwpm/OpenWPM

A skill your agent uses to run a periodic codebase-health pass — dependency audit, lint, test suite, dead code / TODO scan, doc freshness, crosslink issue hygiene, and build artifacts.

Custom licenceAuto-check passedTesting & QA

Install Maintain

skills CLI
$ npx skills add openwpm/OpenWPM --skill maintain -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install openwpm/OpenWPM maintain --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/openwpm/OpenWPM.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.claude/skills/maintain .claude/skills/maintain && 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/

Facts

Skill name
maintain
GitHub stars
1.4k
Token cost
~1.5k tokens
SKILL.md length
507 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
13
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
Custom licence

At a glance

A skill your agent uses to run a periodic codebase-health pass — dependency audit, lint, test suite, dead code / TODO scan, doc freshness, crosslink issue hygiene, and build artifacts.

  • Works in 8 steps: Dependency health → Lint and format check → Test suite health → …
  • Run a periodic codebase-health pass — dependency audit
  • SKILL.md covers 1. Dependency health, 2. Lint and format check, 3. Test suite health and 4. Dead code and stale patterns, plus 5 more sections
  • Calls npm, cargo and go

What it does

Maintain is an agent skill from openwpm/OpenWPM. Use to run a periodic codebase-health pass — dependency audit, lint, test suite, dead code / TODO scan, doc freshness, crosslink issue hygiene, and build artifacts. Conservative by default (small fixes inline, larger work files a maintenance-labelled issue). Trigger when the user says "maintenance", "health check", "audit dependencies", "/maintain", or asks for a periodic project tidy-up.

Its SKILL.md is about 1.5k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Testing & QA, covering Test generation and Linting and formatting. It works with Python, Rust, Elixir and TypeScript. The repository describes itself as: A web privacy measurement framework.

When your agent uses it

  • Run a periodic codebase-health pass — dependency audit
  • Dead code / TODO scan
  • Crosslink issue hygiene
  • Build artifacts

Example prompts

  • “maintenance”
  • “health check”
  • “audit dependencies”
  • “/maintain”

Requirements

  • Node.js

Workflow steps

8 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.

  1. Dependency health
  2. Lint and format check
  3. Test suite health
  4. Dead code and stale patterns
  5. Documentation freshness
  6. Crosslink issue hygiene
  7. Build artifact cleanup
  8. Print maintenance report

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit da628ba. 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:

    • npm
    • cargo
    • go
    • npx
    • git

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use npm, npx and git, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

    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

Maintain loads about 1.5k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 101 tokens; SKILL.md has 507 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~101
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~1.5k

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

Its licence (Custom licence) doesn't allow us to republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 507 words (~1,453 tokens).

“Run a structured codebase maintenance pass. This is a periodic health check — not a pre-commit review. Check each section, report findings, and fix what you can.”

— opening of SKILL.md by openwpm, Custom licence
name
maintain

Read the full SKILL.md on GitHub

Files

Just SKILL.md in .claude/skills/maintain of openwpm/OpenWPM.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit da628ba

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Maintain next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.

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Code Qualitywaybarrios/opencode-power-pack533—~1.8kAutomated safety check: PassMIT
Workflow Setupathola/claude-night-market342—~1.4kAutomated safety check: PassMIT

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Questions about Maintain

What does Maintain do?

A skill your agent uses to run a periodic codebase-health pass — dependency audit, lint, test suite, dead code / TODO scan, doc freshness, crosslink issue hygiene, and build artifacts. Maintain is an agent skill from openwpm/OpenWPM. Use to run a periodic codebase-health pass — dependency audit, lint, test suite, dead code / TODO scan, doc freshness, crosslink issue hygiene, and build artifacts.

When should I use Maintain?

Maintain fits situations like: run a periodic codebase-health pass — dependency audit; dead code / TODO scan; crosslink issue hygiene; build artifacts.

How do I install Maintain in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add openwpm/OpenWPM --skill maintain -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/maintain in openwpm/OpenWPM) into .claude/skills/maintain in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Maintain in Codex?

Run `npx skills add openwpm/OpenWPM --skill maintain -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.claude/skills/maintain in openwpm/OpenWPM) into .agents/skills/maintain in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Maintain 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 openwpm/OpenWPM --skill maintain -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/maintain, .gemini/skills/maintain, .github/skills/maintain and .opencode/skills/maintain in your project.

What does Maintain need to run?

Going by SKILL.md and its folder, Maintain needs the command-line tools its instructions call (npm, cargo, go, npx and git). Our summary lists: Node.js.

Does Maintain access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Its commands use npm, npx and git, which can reach the network depending on how they are called. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Maintain 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 Maintain use?

Maintain has a licence file (the repository's licence) that doesn't match a standard licence. Read it on GitHub before reusing the skill.

How many tokens does Maintain use?

About 1.5k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 5.8k 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 Maintain?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Maintain: Zizkadb Test (ZIZKA-AI-SL/ZizkaDB, 123 stars), Testing Strategies (ancoleman/ai-design-components, 526 stars), Polyglot Test Agent (boshi-xixixi/TraeSkill, 275 stars) and Code Quality (waybarrios/opencode-power-pack, 533 stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Maintain?

openwpm (a GitHub organization) maintains it in openwpm/OpenWPM, which has 1,423 GitHub stars. The repository holds 13 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 4, 2026.

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