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deadrift

deadrift

Zeeshan Khan

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2 installs
| (0) | Free
Find dead code with confidence — inline warnings, sidebar panel, and one-click cleanup.
Installation
Launch VS Code Quick Open (Ctrl+P), paste the following command, and press enter.
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deadrift — VS Code Extension

Find dead code inline in VS Code, powered by deadrift.

Features

  • Inline diagnostics — dead code shown as warnings in the Problems panel
  • Sidebar panel — ranked list of all dead symbols in the Activity Bar
  • One-click navigation — click any symbol to jump to its definition
  • Interactive prune — open a terminal with deadrift prune pre-filled
  • Suppress — right-click any line to add # deadrift: keep
  • Clean AI comments — remove garbage emoji comments from your codebase

Requirements

pip install deadrift

Commands

Command Description
deadrift: Scan Workspace Scan entire workspace
deadrift: Scan Current File Scan open file only
deadrift: Interactive Prune Open terminal for d/c/k/s prune
deadrift: Clean AI Comments Remove garbage comments
deadrift: Suppress This Symbol Add # deadrift: keep
deadrift: Clear All Diagnostics Clear warnings

Settings

Setting Default Description
deadrift.threshold 30 Min confidence score to show
deadrift.autoScanOnSave false Scan on every file save
deadrift.pythonPath "" Path to Python (auto-detected)
deadrift.githubRepo "" owner/repo for ticket checking
deadrift.githubToken "" GitHub PAT
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