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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