What are the thoughts on doing

autoflake

as a plugin?

Oh that’d be neat! You’d be adding a formatter, as it rewrites files. When you add a formatter, you end up implementing both

fmt

and

lint

. Check out https://www.pantsbuild.org/docs/plugins-fmt-goal for a guide on how to do this, along with an example of adding Shfmt. The Black/Isort/Docformatter implementations are also likely instructive; in fact, you could copy and paste ~85% of that code We’d be happy to help out if you’re interested in trying it out

Thanks!