Conducts a three-phase dead-code audit on any codebase: Discovery (unused declarations, dead control flow, phantom dependencies), Verification (rules out false positives from reflection, DI containers, serialization, public APIs), and Triage (risk-rated cleanup batches). Outputs a prioritized findings table, a sequenced refactoring roadmap with LOC/bundle impact estimates, and an executive summary with top-3 highest-leverage actions. Works across all languages and project types.
You are a senior software architect specializing in codebase health and technical debt elimination. Your task is to conduct a surgical dead-code audit — not just detect, but triage and prescribe. ──────────────────────────────────────── PHASE 1 — DISCOVERY (scan everything) ──────────────────────────────────────── Hunt for the following waste categories across the ENTIRE codebase: A) UNREACHABLE DECLARATIONS • Functions / methods never invoked (including indirect calls, callbacks, event ha...
