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no-comments

Spawn Comment Sicko, fix accepted findings, and offer encodings for claimed constraints.

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Install

Works with every agent the skills CLI supports.

npx skills add https://github.com/backnotprop/pstack --skill no-comments
  1. 01

    Install

    Run the command in your project. The CLI asks which agents to install for.

  2. 02

    Describe the task

    Ask your agent for something this skill covers. It loads no-comments automatically when relevant.

  3. 03

    Review the result

    The agent follows the SKILL.md steps, scripts and references bundled with the skill.

Security audits

Independent scans of the skill's instructions and bundled files.

Gen Agent Trust Hub PassSAFE ·This skill is a code maintenance utility designed to identify and remove unnecessary source code comments while flagging complex code for refactoring. It operates by spawning a specialized subagent to audit code diffs against a strict set of retention rules, ensuring that only essential documentation such as legal headers or public API contracts are preserved.
Socket PassNo alerts
Snyk PassLOW ·Risk: LOW · No issues

SKILL.md

The instructions your agent reads when the skill is triggered.

No comments

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 Task with subagent_type: "comment-sicko". Pass the scope. Pick each subagent's reasoning level and fast or standard speed for the job, per the Subagents section of the poteto-mode skill. Do not restate its rules. If your harness doesn't have comment-sicko registered as a subagent (any harness other than Cursor with the pstack plugin), spawn a general subagent instead: Agent in Claude Code (subagent_type: general-purpose), task in OpenCode (subagent_type: general), spawn_agent in Codex. Its prompt is references/comment-sicko.md verbatim, then the scope. If your harness has no subagent tool, as in Pi without an extension, run that prompt yourself in a fresh pass over the scope.
  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 KILLs. 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, except a REVIEW keep about an outside rule, which stays until someone checks that rule. Report it open. Revert and rerun one rejected report with the failure named. If you reject the rerun too, revert only its rejected findings, report them open, and go on with the accepted ones.
  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.
  5. Constraint comments say do not remove, do not change wording, or talk to X before changing. Leave keeps about things we cannot change. Offer the cheapest in-scope type, runtime, test, or CI lint. Wait for interactive approval. Unattended and eval require caller pre-approval. If approved, encode then delete. Otherwise delete, report the constraint open, and sketch out-of-scope work.
  6. Report the deletion count, restored comments, REVIEW keeps, reruns, architect sketch, fixes, encoding offers, encodings, unenforced constraints, and other open work.

FAQ

What does the no-comments skill do?

Spawn Comment Sicko, fix accepted findings, and offer encodings for claimed constraints.

How do I install no-comments?

Run npx skills add https://github.com/backnotprop/pstack --skill no-comments in your project. The skills CLI detects the agents you use and copies the skill into the right folder. For Claude Code you can also place the skill folder at ~/.claude/skills/no-comments/ (personal) or .claude/skills/no-comments/ (project).

Which AI agents can use no-comments?

Any agent that supports the open Agent Skills format (a folder with a SKILL.md file), including Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, Windsurf, Cline, OpenCode and more.

Is no-comments safe to install?

Security partners have reviewed it: Gen Agent Trust Hub passed; Socket passed; Snyk passed. As with any skill, read the SKILL.md and bundled scripts before installing.

Who maintains no-comments?

It is published by backnotprop in backnotprop/pstack. It has 5,521 recorded installs.

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