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knip-deadcode-best-practices

Category: Engineering  ·  Sub-category: engineering-misc  ·  Last updated:
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Knip dead code detection best practices for JavaScript and TypeScript projects. Use when configuring Knip, analyzing unused code, setting up CI integration, or cleaning up codebases. Triggers on knip.json, dead code, unused exports, unused dependencies, bundle optimization.

From the source SKILL.md

Comprehensive guide for detecting and removing dead code in JavaScript and TypeScript projects using Knip. Contains 43 rules across 8 categories, prioritized by impact to guide configuration, CI integration, and cleanup workflows.

What this skill does

knip-deadcode-best-practices is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the engineering-misc sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/knip-deadcode/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when configuring Knip, analyzing unused code, setting up CI integration, or cleaning up codebases. Triggers on knip.

Who uses this skill

The knip-deadcode-best-practices Claude Code skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 70,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

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Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/knip-deadcode
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/knip-deadcode/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/knip-deadcode/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/knip-deadcode/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/knip-deadcode/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\knip-deadcode\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

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ClaudSkills. (2026). knip-deadcode-best-practices [Claude Code skill]. ClaudSkills. https://claudskills.com/skills/knip-deadcode/
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@misc{knip-deadcode-2026,
  author    = {ClaudSkills},
  title     = {knip-deadcode-best-practices [Claude Code skill]},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {ClaudSkills},
  url       = {https://claudskills.com/skills/knip-deadcode/}
}

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