Guidelines for writing clean, maintainable, and human-readable code

Guidelines for writing clean, maintainable, and human-readable code is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from AmariahAK/atlarix-skills. It costs 13 tokens per session (471 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A set of rules for writing and reviewing code that is easier for people to understand and maintain. It recommends clear names, named constants instead of unexplained numbers, focused functions, and comments that explain reasons rather than obvious actions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing or reviewing code to improve naming, function structure, constants, comments, API documentation, and handling of complex logic.
Why use it?
It reduces confusion caused by vague names, repeated values, oversized functions, and comments that become inaccurate when code changes. The rules give reviewers and developers a shared standard for code quality.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when writing or reviewing code to improve naming, function structure, constants, comments, API documentation, and handling of complex logic.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/amariahak/atlarix-skills/acr-clean-code
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 AmariahAK/atlarix-skills --skill acr-clean-code
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AmariahAK/atlarix-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 13 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 471 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00013 $0.00471
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00235
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00094
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00047

Measured 9d ago against content hash 4fb6abb898c8, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Guidelines for writing clean, maintainable, and human-readable code 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 9d 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.

skills/acr-clean-code/SKILL.md · 69 lines

What it actually says

Guidelines for writing clean, maintainable, and human-readable code

When to use this skill

Guidelines for writing clean, maintainable, and human-readable code. Apply these rules when writing or reviewing code to ensure consistency and quality.

Source

Synced from https://github.com/PatrickJS/awesome-cursorrules/tree/main/rules/clean-code.mdc.

Clean Code Guidelines

Constants Over Magic Numbers

  • Replace hard-coded values with named constants
  • Use descriptive constant names that explain the value's purpose
  • Keep constants at the top of the file or in a dedicated constants file

Meaningful Names

  • Variables, functions, and classes should reveal their purpose
  • Names should explain why something exists and how it's used
  • Avoid abbreviations unless they're universally understood

Smart Comments

  • Don't comment on what the code does - make the code self-documenting
  • Use comments to explain why something is done a certain way
  • Document APIs, complex algorithms, and non-obvious side effects

Single Responsibility

  • Each function should do exactly one thing
  • Functions should be small and focused
  • If a function needs a comment to explain what it does, it should be split

DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself)

  • Extract repeated code into reusable functions
  • Share common logic through proper abstraction
  • Maintain single sources of truth

Clean Structure

  • Keep related code together
  • Organize code in a logical hierarchy
  • Use consistent file and folder naming conventions

Encapsulation

  • Hide implementation details
  • Expose clear interfaces
  • Move nested conditionals into well-named functions

Code Quality Maintenance

  • Refactor continuously
  • Fix technical debt early
  • Leave code cleaner than you found it

Testing

  • Write tests before fixing bugs
  • Keep tests readable and maintainable
  • Test edge cases and error conditions

Version Control

  • Write clear commit messages
  • Make small, focused commits
  • Use meaningful branch names
Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 9d ago First seen · 69 lines · 13 tokens per session scan A 4fb6abb898c8

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Guidelines for writing clean, maintainable, and human-readable code is a skill published in the GitHub repository AmariahAK/atlarix-skills (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 13 tokens to every session and 471 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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