A repository-structure audit and cleanup tool for finding outdated documents, misplaced files, unused configuration, and leftover test artifacts.

It checks the project root, docs, config, tests, and archive folders, either across the repository or in a selected area.

It helps keep project files organised without changing code, and reports findings before cleanup changes are made.

tidy — Skill for Claude Code by Abilityai/abilities

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent

npx skills add Abilityai/abilities --skill tidy

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Abilityai/abilities

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dev-methodology, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills, 3 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/abilityai/abilities/tidy/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/abilityai/abilities/tidy)

Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 776 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00039	$0.00776
Opus 5.5	$0.00016	$0.00310
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00008	$0.00155
Haiku 4.5	$0.00004	$0.00078

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 658ed55fa143, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

tidy 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 1mo 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.

plugins/dev-methodology/skills/tidy/SKILL.md · 95 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 95 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Repository Tidy Skill

ℹ️ First, set expectations: before anything else, print one short line with this skill's version and its most recent change — the top entry of metadata.changelog above — e.g. tidy vX.Y — recent: <summary>. Then proceed.

Audit and clean up the repository structure without breaking code.

State Dependencies

Source	Location	Read	Write	Description
Requirements	`docs/memory/requirements.md`	✅		Feature status
Feature Flows	`docs/memory/feature-flows.md`	✅		Active flows
Root Files	Project root	✅		Misplaced files
Docs Folder	`docs/`	✅		Outdated docs
Config Folder	`config/`	✅		Orphan configs
Tests Folder	`tests/`	✅		Test artifacts
Archive	`archive/`		✅	Archived files

Usage

/tidy                    # Full audit of all areas
/tidy docs               # Audit only docs/ folder
/tidy root               # Audit only root folder
/tidy tests              # Audit only tests/ folder
/tidy --report-only      # Generate report without any changes

Core Principles

Never break code - Only touch non-code files
Report before action - Always generate audit report first
Archive over delete - Move outdated files to archive/
Safe deletes are automatic - __pycache__, .pyc, test outputs
Everything else needs approval

Procedure

Phase 1: Safe Cleanup (Automatic)

Delete without asking:

__pycache__/ directories
*.pyc, *.pyo files
.DS_Store files
*.log files in non-essential locations
node_modules/.cache/

Phase 2: Audit by Scope

Root folder: stray files, misplaced configs
Docs folder: outdated docs, drafts
Tests folder: orphan test outputs, stale fixtures
Config folder: unused configs

Phase 3: Generate Report

Report with tables for each area showing file, issue, and recommendation.

Phase 4: Wait for Approval

If --report-only, stop. Otherwise ask which actions to take.

Read the full file on GitHub · 95 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.

1mo ago First seen · 95 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 658ed55fa143

Subscribe to this mod's changes

tidy is a skill published in the GitHub repository Abilityai/abilities (12 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 776 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-09-07.

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