Night Market Skill — ported from claude-night-market/conserve. For the full experience with agents, hooks, and commands, install the Claude Code plugin.

Table of Contents

• Bloat Categories
• Quick Start
• When to Use
• Confidence Levels
• Prioritization
• Module Architecture
• Safety

Bloat Detector

Systematically detect and eliminate codebase bloat through progressive analysis tiers.

Bloat Categories

Category	Examples
Code	Dead code, God classes, Lava flow, duplication
AI-Generated	Tab-completion bloat, vibe coding, hallucinated deps
Documentation	Redundancy, verbosity, stale content, slop
Dependencies	Unused imports, dependency bloat, phantom packages
Git History	Stale files, low-churn code, massive single commits

Quick Start

Tier 1: Quick Scan (2-5 min, no tools)

/bloat-scan

Detects: Large files, stale code, old TODOs, commented blocks, basic duplication

Tier 2: Targeted Analysis (10-20 min, optional tools)

/bloat-scan --level 2 --focus code   # or docs, deps

Adds: Static analysis (Vulture/Knip), git churn hotspots, doc similarity

Tier 3: Deep Audit (30-60 min, full tooling)

/bloat-scan --level 3 --report audit.md

Adds: Cross-file redundancy, dependency graphs, readability metrics

When To Use

Do	Don't
Context usage > 30%	Active feature development
Quarterly maintenance	Time-sensitive bugs
Pre-release cleanup	Codebase < 1000 lines
Before major refactoring	Tools unavailable (Tier 2/3)

When NOT To Use

• Active feature development
• Time-sensitive bugs
• Codebase < 1000 lines

Confidence Levels

Level	Confidence	Action
HIGH	90-100%	Safe to remove
MEDIUM	70-89%	Review first
LOW	50-69%	Investigate

Prioritization

Priority = (Token_Savings × 0.4) + (Maintenance × 0.3) + (Confidence × 0.2) + (Ease × 0.1)

Module Architecture

Tier 1 (always available):

• See

  modules/quick-scan.md

  - Heuristics, no tools
• See

  modules/git-history-analysis.md

  - Staleness, churn, vibe coding signatures
• See

  modules/growth-analysis.md

  - Growth velocity, forecasts, threshold alerts

Tier 2 (optional tools):

• See

  modules/code-bloat-patterns.md

  - Anti-patterns (God class, Lava flow)
• See

  modules/ai-generated-bloat.md

  - AI-specific patterns (Tab bloat, hallucinations)
• See

  modules/documentation-bloat.md

  - Redundancy, readability, slop detection
• See

  modules/static-analysis-integration.md

  - Vulture, Knip

Shared:

• See

  modules/remediation-types.md

  - DELETE, REFACTOR, CONSOLIDATE, ARCHIVE

Auto-Exclusions

Always excludes:

.venv

,

__pycache__

,

.git

,

node_modules

,

dist

,

build

,

vendor

Also respects:

.gitignore

,

.bloat-ignore

Safety

• Never auto-delete - all changes require approval
• Dry-run support -

  --dry-run

  for previews
• Backup branches - created before bulk changes

Related

• bloat-auditor

  agent - Executes scans

• unbloat-remediator

  agent - Safe remediation

• context-optimization

  skill - MECW principles