# fallow

Analyzes TypeScript and JavaScript codebases for dead code, duplicates, and architectural risks. Useful during PR reviews and refactoring.

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- Author: fallow-rs
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/fallow-rs/fallow-skills/tree/HEAD/fallow/skills/fallow/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-25
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/fallow

## What it does

Fallow inspects JavaScript and TypeScript repositories to report dead code, unused dependencies, and design-system styling drift. It catches circular imports, architecture boundary issues, and functions that share intent under different syntax. You can also combine production execution logs with `fallow health` reports to delete cold paths with confidence.

For agent workflows, fallow expects output parsed from `--format json --quiet`. Safe deletions require `--dry-run` before applying changes with `fix --yes`. It does not replace `tsc` for compiler diagnostics or ESLint for formatting. Its `fallow security` command surfaces deterministic security candidates for an agent to check, not verified exploits.

The CLI itself must be installed via `npm install -g fallow` or `cargo install fallow-cli` before using the skill. Running this analysis on languages other than JavaScript or TypeScript will produce zero results.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add fallow-rs/fallow-skills --skill fallow -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/fallow/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/fallow/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add fallow-rs/fallow-skills --skill fallow -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/fallow/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add fallow-rs/fallow-skills --skill fallow -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/fallow/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install fallow-rs/fallow-skills fallow
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/fallow/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add fallow-rs/fallow-skills --skill fallow -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/fallow-rs/fallow-skills --path fallow/skills/fallow
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/fallow/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add fallow-rs/fallow-skills --skill fallow -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/fallow-rs/fallow-skills/tree/HEAD/fallow/skills/fallow/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- find unused exports, files, types, and dependencies
- spot semantically similar functions written with different syntax
- detect circular imports and architecture boundary violations
- merge production runtime coverage with codebase health metrics
- safely remove dead code with auto-fix after dry-run validation

## Example prompts
- Run fallow to find unused exports and dependencies in this codebase
- Check for semantically duplicate logic using fallow similar-code
- Audit test coverage gaps and hotspots with fallow health --coverage-gaps

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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---
name: fallow
description: Codebase intelligence for TypeScript and JavaScript. Static analysis reports changed-code risk, cleanup opportunities, duplication, circular dependencies, complexity hotspots, architecture boundaries, design-system drift, feature flags, and opt-in security candidates. Optional local similar-code discovery finds functions that may implement the same intent despite different syntax. Runtime coverage can merge production execution data. Use when asked to audit PR risk, find unused code or dependencies, compare semantically similar functions, detect duplicates, inspect architecture boundaries, merge runtime coverage, auto-fix supported issues, or run fallow.
license: MIT
---

# Fallow: codebase intelligence for TypeScript and JavaScript

Fallow analyzes code and styles for changed-code risk, cleanup opportunities, circular dependencies, duplication, complexity hotspots, architecture boundary violations, design-system styling drift, feature flags, and opt-in security candidates. Runtime coverage merges production execution data into the same `fallow health` report for hot-path review and cold-path deletion confidence. A single local capture is available by default. Continuous or cloud runtime monitoring is optional.

## When to Use
- Find cleanup opportunities: unused files, exports, types, members, dependencies, or feature flags that guard unused exports.
- Detect code duplication, circular dependencies, architecture boundary issues, and complexity hotspots.
- Find functions that may implement the same intent despite different names, syntax, or control flow (`fallow similar-code`).
- Check styling consistency, CSS dead surface, and design-token drift.
- Audit changed code before a commit, PR, release, or refactor.
- Set up CI quality gates, duplication thresholds, and regression baselines.
- Auto-fix supported unused exports and dependencies after `--dry-run`.
- Investigate why a specific export, dependency, file, or issue type was reported.
- Surface local security candidates for an agent to verify (`fallow security`).
- Find untested but runtime-reachable code (`fallow health --coverage-gaps`).
- Rank complexity hotspots, owners, and refactoring targets (`fallow health --hotspots --ownership --targets`).
- Review what fallow has surfaced over time (`fallow impact`).
- Confirm exact TypeScript symbol use, affected tests, API leaks, or public type coupling when syntactic evidence is insufficient (`--type-aware`).

## When NOT to Use
- Runtime error analysis or debugging
- Type checking (use `tsc` for that). Type-aware fallow consumes checker evidence for project-wide analysis but does not report compiler diagnostics.
- Linting style or formatting issues (use ESLint, Biome, Prettier)
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