prompt-improver: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

prompt-improver CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from owenob1/prompt-improver. It costs 1,791 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of repository instructions for a tool that turns vague coding requests into structured XML instructions for another coding assistant to follow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when working on the prompt-improver project, running its tests, checking example prompts, or inspecting how prompts and context are assembled.
Why use it?
It gives developers a repeatable way to clarify incomplete requests and check the generated instructions with included Bash scripts.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

This is owenob1/prompt-improver's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on prompt-improver itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything prompt-improver configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to owenob1/prompt-improver. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/owenob1/prompt-improver/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/owenob1/prompt-improver

Made for: Claude Code.

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Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.01791 $0.01791
Opus 5 $0.00896 $0.00896
Sonnet 5 $0.00358 $0.00358
Haiku 4.5 $0.00179 $0.00179

Measured 7d ago against content hash a115b35f70b3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

prompt-improver CLAUDE.md scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 7d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

CLAUDE.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md

This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.

What this is

A pure-Bash Agent Skill (no build step, no package manager, no compiled code). It takes a vague coding request and rewrites it into a structured XML spec by shelling out to a separate coding CLI (claude, grok, codex, gemini, …) headlessly, then hands the result back to the host agent to execute.

Commands

bash tests/smoke-test.sh                          # full suite — this is what CI runs
bash skills/prompt-improver/scripts/smoke-test.sh # skill-package checks only (14 groups, faster)

There is no test-name filter. To iterate on one check, run the underlying script directly:

cd skills/prompt-improver
bash scripts/validate-prompt.sh examples/fixtures/valid-prompt.xml    # expect exit 0
bash scripts/validate-prompt.sh examples/fixtures/invalid-prompt.xml  # expect exit 1
bash scripts/assemble-generation-prompt.sh "some request"             # inspect assembled generator prompt
bash scripts/gather-context.sh .                                      # inspect deterministic context block
bash scripts/generate-prompt.sh --raw-input "..." --mode plan --skip-validate  # end-to-end, needs a CLI on PATH

Group [1/8] of the skill smoke test runs bash -n over every scripts/**/*.sh, so syntax errors are caught without a separate lint step. There is no typecheck, formatter, or linter.

Architecture

Host agent session (Claude Code / Grok / …)
  └─ scripts/generate-prompt.sh          orchestrator
       ├─ lib/settings.sh                settings + model/backend resolution + limit detection
       ├─ gather-context.sh              deterministic repo facts (shell only, never AI search)
       ├─ assemble-generation-prompt.sh  references + context + raw request → one prompt file
       ├─ backends/<cli>.sh              headless invoke of the generator CLI
       └─ validate-prompt.sh             structural checks on the XML
  └─ host executes the XML (execute mode) or shows it (plan mode)

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 90 lines · 1,791 tokens per session scan A a115b35f70b3

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prompt-improver CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository owenob1/prompt-improver (6 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 1,791 tokens to every session, about $0.0090 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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