comment-reaper SKILL.md skillA
comment-reaper from jerseycheese/agent-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add jerseycheese/agent-skills/comment-reaper@git:20261016.04e815bPins git:20261016.04e815b in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- jerseycheese/agent-skills
- Path
skills/comment-reaper/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261016.04e815b, committed Oct 16, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 15, 2026
- Size
- 8,643 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Finds and removes comments that add nothing: ones that restate the code, cite issue numbers, narrate refactor history, or pad a one-liner with JSDoc. Keeps the WHY comments. Trigger on: "reap comments", "remove unnecessary comments", "too many comments", "comment audit".
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Comment Reaper Most comment cleanup fails one of two ways: it deletes a comment that was carrying a constraint nobody could reconstruct, or it stops at commented-out code and calls the job done. This skill exists because the second failure is the common one in a well-kept repo. The obvious rot is already gone; what remains is comments that are *technically accurate and still worthless*. The rule this enforces is in the user's CLAUDE.md under "Code hygiene: comments & naming": explain WHY, not WHAT. That file names issue/PR citations as "the single most common violation of this section," and until this skill existed nothing looked for them. The core discipline, inherited from `doc-rot`: **a comment is not reapable because it looks obvious. It is reapable because the code already says it.** Those differ. Read the code under the comment before cutting. ## Sibling skills, so you don't do their job - `doc-rot` fixes comments that **contradict** the code. If the comment is wrong, that's rot, not bloat - hand it over. - `plain-language-audit` fixes comments that are **hard to read**. Jargon and verbosity are quality problems; this skill is an existence problem. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add jerseycheese/agent-skills/comment-reaper@sha256:e30b5563b0304eb4The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261016.04e815b, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_6fpjtxon7grynr5p)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Aug 15, 2026 and Oct 16, 2026, about one every 61 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261016.04e815b latest | 2026-10-16 | 04e815b | 8,643 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260815.e36a0ed | 2026-08-15 | e36a0ed | 9,044 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (8643 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
jerseycheese/agent-skills · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6fpjtxon7grynr5p GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=jerseycheese/agent-skills/comment-reaper GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e30b5563b0304eb43556be0b4a11e398c5a8080880fc42dd72a5d524525978dd
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.