skills: Instructions file for Claude Code

CLAUDE.md

skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file for Claude Code from wyattjoh/skills. It costs 1,380 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

Repository instructions for maintaining a collection of Claude Code skills and agents. It explains the folder layout, path-specific rules, and how these Markdown-based components are authored.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding or changing skills, agents, helper scripts, references, or repository configuration.
Why use it?
It gives coding agents the project rules they need to edit the repository without breaking its structure or conventions.

Instructions file for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: the file is CLAUDE.md. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

This is wyattjoh/skills's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on skills 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 skills configures →

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to wyattjoh/skills. 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/wyattjoh/skills/main/CLAUDE.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wyattjoh/skills

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Sonnet 5 $0.00276 $0.00276
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Grade A, and why

skills 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 today.

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 · 100 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 100 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.

Overview

This repository is a public collection of Claude Code skills and agents for software development workflows. There is no application to build: skills are Markdown (SKILL.md) with optional Bun/TypeScript helper scripts, and agents are single Markdown files.

For how Claude Code auto-loads skills, agents, rules, and memory, see .claude/references/claude-code-loading.md.

Repository structure

skills/              # one directory per published skill, each with a SKILL.md (plus optional scripts/ and references/)
agents/              # one Markdown file per agent
.claude/skills/      # skills internal to this repo, not published (e.g. claude-skills-update)
.claude/references/  # shared reference docs for authoring in this repo, plus pinned dependency submodules
.claude/rules/       # path-scoped authoring conventions for this repo
package.json         # Bun workspace root (workspaces: ["skills/*"]) for skill helper scripts

Skills under skills/ are the published collection and belong in the README.md table. Skills under .claude/skills/ are repo-internal tooling: they load automatically when working in this repository and are not listed in README.md.

Path-scoped rules

Conformance rules live in .claude/rules/ and auto-activate via paths: frontmatter when Claude edits matching files:

Rule Scope Purpose
skills.md skills/** SKILL.md format, Bun/TypeScript scripts, directory structure
agents.md agents/**/*.md Agent frontmatter fields, reload behavior, validation
testing.md All files Positive, exact test expectations instead of negated chains

Read the full file on GitHub · 100 lines

Changes

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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. today Changed · +12 lines · +329 tokens per session 24e32e867c75
  2. 8d ago First seen · 88 lines · 1,051 tokens per session scan A 3337dbb7b314

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skills CLAUDE.md is an instructions file published in the GitHub repository wyattjoh/skills (2 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 1,380 tokens to every session, about $0.0069 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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