Absolute Prune

by maddhruv

Absolute Prune is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by maddhruv in absolute.

209 stars29 forkson maddhruv/absoluteAdded 2026/09/04Repository updated 2026/07/06

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Install Absolute Prune

Copy Absolute Prune into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/maddhruv/absolute/tree/main/skills/absolute-prune ~/.claude/skills/absolute-prune

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/maddhruv/absolute.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: skills/absolute-prune/SKILL.md in maddhruv/absolute
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/absolute-prune
Collection: One of 11 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1557 skills

What Absolute Prune does

Absolute Prune removes dead code, unused dependencies, unreferenced exports, unreachable branches, and orphaned files from the whole repo. It is used on green main and verifies each removal with tool evidence and tests before deleting anything.

Absolute Prune is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Absolute Prune comes from a repository tagged claude, claude-code, claude-skills, codex and documentation.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

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Absolute Prune

Cut dead growth from the repo: unused dependencies, unreferenced exports, unreachable code, orphaned files. Evidence-based — every removal is backed by a tool that proves nothing references it — applied in safe waves with tests green after each.

Runs the shared engine in references/health-engine.md — read it for the DETECT → SCAN → TRIAGE → FIX → VERIFY → REPORT loop and the safety contract. This file covers only what's specific to pruning.

When to use

"Remove dead code", "clean up unused deps", "what can we delete?".
Bundle/install bloat from packages nothing imports anymore.
Post-refactor orphans: files and exports left behind after a feature was rerouted.

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Commands Absolute Prune provides

Slash commands named in this skill’s SKILL.md, listed in the order they first appear.

/absolute

Frequently asked about Absolute Prune

What else does maddhruv publish alongside Absolute Prune?
Absolute Prune is one of 11 skills that DirSkills catalogs from maddhruv/absolute, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Absolute Audit, Absolute Debt and Absolute Deflake. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Absolute Prune does, and is maintained by maddhruv in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the maddhruv/absolute page.
How does Absolute Prune compare to other Quality skills?
Absolute Prune ranks #1444 by stars among the 1557 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Absolute Prune against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.