Dead Code Sweep Systematic identification and removal of dead code, redundant implementations, and orphaned artifacts in codebases — particularly those maintained by coding agents with limited context windows. Why Agent-Maintained Codebases Accumulate Cruft Coding agents operate within narrow context windows. When refactoring, they often: - Re-implement functionality without finding and removing the original - Leave compatibility shims for interfaces that no longer exist - Abandon helper functions after inlining their logic - Create new files without deleting the ones they replace - Duplicate…