# no-comments

Spawns the comment-sicko subagent to scrub obsolete comments and linter suppressions, turning actual code constraints into automated tests or types.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 841 installs · ★ 3451
- Author: michael-denyer
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/michael-denyer/pstack-claude/tree/HEAD/plugins/pstack/skills/no-comments/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-22
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/michael-denyer-no-comments

## What it does

The skill passes selected files or the current diff against `main` to the `pstack:comment-sicko` subagent. The subagent reviews the scope, flagging dead code paths, unnecessary explanations, and TypeScript or linter suppressions. Correctness and safety suppressions stay marked for removal. For straightforward findings, the skill acts immediately by dropping unused parameters or dead branches.

When a fix requires structural changes, it calls `/architect` once to produce a sketch before implementing the smallest root-cause patch. If a comment states a strict constraint like `do not remove` or `talk to X before changing`, the agent proposes encoding it as a type, runtime guard, or test. It requires explicit user approval before applying such encodings and deleting the comment.

Because the workflow relies on `poteto-mode` conventions and helper commands like `/how` and `/why`, running it without the surrounding pstack setup makes handling ambiguous flags noticeably harder.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add michael-denyer/pstack-claude --skill no-comments -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/no-comments/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/no-comments/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add michael-denyer/pstack-claude --skill no-comments -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/no-comments/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add michael-denyer/pstack-claude --skill no-comments -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/no-comments/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install michael-denyer/pstack-claude no-comments
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/no-comments/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add michael-denyer/pstack-claude --skill no-comments -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/michael-denyer/pstack-claude --path plugins/pstack/skills/no-comments
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/no-comments/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add michael-denyer/pstack-claude --skill no-comments -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/michael-denyer/pstack-claude/tree/HEAD/plugins/pstack/skills/no-comments/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- remove useless comments and dead code paths
- turn comments like `do not remove` into type or test constraints
- eliminate stale linter and TypeScript suppressions
- fix the root causes of workarounds without adding symptom guards

## Example prompts
- /no-comments
- Run /no-comments on the current diff against main
- Review comments and suppressions in src/index.ts with /no-comments

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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name: no-comments
description: "Spawn the comment-sicko subagent, fix accepted findings, and offer encodings for claimed constraints."
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# No comments

On Codex, read the [platform mapping](../poteto-mode/references/codex-tools.md), including its per-skill notes, before following this skill.

On GitHub Copilot, read the [platform mapping](../poteto-mode/references/copilot-tools.md), including its per-skill notes, before following this skill.

On Muse, read the [platform mapping](../poteto-mode/references/muse-tools.md), including its per-skill notes, before following this skill.

Spawn comment-sicko. Act on accepted findings.

Defer to comment-sicko's fresh perspective.

## Scope

Use the caller's files or diff. Otherwise use the current diff against the base branch, default `main`, including the working tree.

## Steps

1. Spawn `Agent` with `subagent_type: "pstack:comment-sicko"`. Pass the scope. Pick each subagent's reasoning level for the job, per the Subagents section of the **poteto-mode** skill. Do not restate its rules.
2. Inspect its report and diff. Reject application-code edits, scope escapes, exception-protected deletions, misstated `MUST KILL` reasons, and flags that treat kept intentional code as guilty. Reshape flags on our-code surprises stay actionable. Do not restore those comments. A keep survives only with proof it is about something we cannot change. Audit missed scoped lint and TypeScript suppressions. Correctness or safety suppressions stay actionable `MUST KILL`s. Restore deletions only with exact exceptions and scoped proof. Before accepting thin `IMPORTANT` or `do not remove` kills or keeps, run `/how` or `/why` on their symbol. If a kill is ambiguous, do not restore. If a keep is refuted or still ambiguous, delete it. Revert and rerun one rejected report with the failure named. Reject a second, report it open, and fail `/no-comments`.
3. Fix trivial accepted flags directly by deleting a dead path, dropping a parameter, or using the real API. If any fix needs a shape, run `/architect` once for the accepted set and surrounding code. Stop at the sketch. Architect shapes. Step 4 implements.
4. Implement the smallest root-cause fix in scope. Remove every named workaround. If the root cause is out of scope, land the smallest in-scope fix and report the rest open. The **principle-fix-root-causes** and **principle-redesign-from-first-principles** skills guide intent only. Neither authorizes widening the fence nor fixing instances outside it. Never bolt on symptom guards.
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