# Retire translation keys, images, and assets that nothing references

Keys and files nothing points at, removed with the bundle measured either side.

Category: Dead code and stale content
Source: https://letsship.ai/use-cases/retire-unreferenced-assets
Published: 2026-08-25

## Goal

Remove translation keys, images, and other assets nothing references.

## Acceptance criteria

- Each removal is confirmed unreferenced, including dynamically constructed references
- The extraction report is clean
- Bundle or asset size is recorded before and after
- Assets referenced only from content or configuration are checked

## What lands as proof

A clean extraction report plus the measured size difference.

## Prompt

Copy this to an agent to open the ticket:

```text
Create a Linear issue in my team and assign it to the SHIP agent.

Title: Remove the unreferenced {assets}

Description: Remove translation keys, images, and other assets nothing references.

Acceptance criteria:
- Each removal is confirmed unreferenced, including dynamically constructed references
- The extraction report is clean
- Bundle or asset size is recorded before and after
- Assets referenced only from content or configuration are checked

Before you create the issue, run an unused-asset and unused-key check over this repository and replace {assets}.
```

## Questions

### What does the agent actually change?

The ticket is scoped to one outcome: remove translation keys, images, and other assets nothing references. Work that serves that outcome is in scope, and anything outside it is left for a separate ticket, so the pull request stays reviewable.

### How do I know the work is done?

The pull request carries the evidence, not only the diff. Here that means bundle smaller, extraction report clean, so a reviewer can confirm the result without reproducing the work locally.

### How much oversight does this need?

None is required before the run starts. Every claim this ticket makes can be checked by machine, so the agent works straight through and a person reviews the finished pull request like any other.