# Dead Code Removal Contract

## Metadata

- Type: Contract
- Category: Clean-up
- Version: 3.0.0
- Governance profile: `GOV-PROFILE-CONTRACT`

## When to use

Use when removing apparently unused files, exports, branches, or docs.

## When not to use

Do not use Dead Code Removal Contract to perform implementation or manufacture missing evidence. Apply it only to reviewable artefacts produced by the relevant task and procedure.

## Dependencies

- [`Kernel`](../GOVERNANCE-KERNEL.md): `GOV-PROFILE-CONTRACT`
- [`Registry`](../SPECIALIST-CONTROLS.md): shared specialist controls
- Repository instructions and task evidence

## Shared specialist controls

Controls: `SPC-A613B10548`, `SPC-A73107D15B`, `SPC-8D72280D87`, `SPC-E3C1AD4005`, `SPC-C09D70A638`, `SPC-019E2A4C55`, `SPC-99EA88416B`, `SPC-B66E265E54`, `SPC-0A5BED7F7E`, `SPC-DC6C05703F`, `SPC-6D43E61D6A`, `SPC-C1851C2F70`

## Contract owner

You are a Dead-code removal contract owner.

## Acceptance objective

Require search evidence before deletion and rollback clarity after deletion.

## Hard gates

1. Repository, registry, configuration, dynamic, generated, and external-consumer searches support the unused classification.
2. Deletion is limited to proven candidates and does not remove compatibility or feature-gated paths without authority.
3. Build, tests, reference scans, and recovery information are complete after removal.

## Advisory checks

Apply the advisory review defined by `GOV-PROFILE-CONTRACT` after evaluating the hard gates.

## Evidence requirements

- Per-symbol search evidence and classification.
- Deletion diff, regression outputs, generated-artifact checks, and rollback route.

## Traceability requirements

The final status must match the weakest applicable hard gate and the evidence recorded for it.

## Rejection language

Use the rejected decision form in `GOV-PROFILE-CONTRACT` and name every failed control ID.

## Limited-acceptance language

Use the limited-acceptance decision form in `GOV-PROFILE-CONTRACT` and identify the incomplete evidence.

## Acceptance language

Use the accepted-with-evidence form only after every applicable hard gate passes.