codebase-health-assessment SKILL.md skillA
codebase-health-assessment from annatchijova/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add annatchijova/skills/codebase-health-assessment@git:20260714.874a755Pins git:20260714.874a755 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- annatchijova/skills
- Path
codebase-health-assessment/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260714.874a755, committed Jul 14, 2026
- Size
- 13,040 bytes
- Repository stars
- 9
- License
- a license file GitHub does not identify
Systematic assessment of a codebase's living, dead, and fossil modules — scan, categorize, prioritize, act. Use when the user says "audit the codebase", "find dead code", "what can we delete", "clean up the repo", "module archaeology", "codebase health", "what's unused", "technical debt inventory", or when a project has accumulated enough history that nobody is sure which modules are live and which are orphaned. Also trigger when the user asks "is this module still used?…
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
# Codebase Health Assessment A methodology for scanning a codebase at the *module* level — not individual lines or functions, but whole files and namespaces — to answer: what is alive, what is dead, what is dangerous, and what should be done about each. It exists because mature codebases accumulate modules faster than they retire them. Every feature added, every refactor attempted, every hackathon prototype committed leaves artifacts. Over months and years, the ratio of live code to fossil code degrades silently until nobody is confident about what is safe to touch, what is safe to delete, and what looks dead but is load-bearing. The prime directive: > **Classify before acting. Act by classification, not by intuition.** A module that "looks dead" may be load-bearing through paths invisible to grep. A module that "looks important" may have been superseded and never cleaned up. The classification phase produces evidence; the action phase consumes it. --- ## Part 1 — Scope and Index ### Establish the population …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add annatchijova/skills/codebase-health-assessment@sha256:6bb933cbee443d2cThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260714.874a755, 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_euz2i7x55fkdqb44)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 14, 2026.
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 (13040 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
annatchijova/skills · 9 stars · license a license file GitHub does not identify · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_euz2i7x55fkdqb44 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=annatchijova/skills/codebase-health-assessment GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6bb933cbee443d2c2c70b637c57297e65a6d92d795b32624614c3f12b9afd735
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