claude-md-improver

claude-md-improver is a skill for Claude Code from anthropics/claude-plugins-official. It costs 82 tokens per session (1,482 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A repository helper that checks CLAUDE.md files, which give Claude Code project-specific instructions and context, then suggests targeted improvements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find every CLAUDE.md file, review its quality, produce a report, and update approved instructions across a repository, including a monorepo—a repository containing multiple related projects.
Why use it?
It finds scattered or outdated instructions and shows where they could be clearer before changing them. This helps Claude Code work with the project using more accurate guidance.

Skill for Claude Code ✓ vendor

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions Claude Code.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is #### 2. ./packages/api/CLAUDE.md (Package-specific).

Part of the claude-md-management plugin — 1 skill, 1 command shipped together

Good fit Use it to find every CLAUDE.md file, review its quality, produce a report, and update approved instructions across a repository, including a monorepo—a repository containing multiple related projects.

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About the project

Claude Code Plugins Directory is a marketplace containing plugins for Claude Code, including tools, commands, skills, agents, hooks, and model context servers. Claude Code users browse it to install Anthropic-maintained or approved third-party extensions.

anthropics/claude-plugins-official · 36,069 stars · on GitHub · code.claude.com

Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/claude-md-improver

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-md-management, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 1 command.

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Per session 82 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,482 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 7 May 2026
  • Snyk pass 7 May 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00082 $0.01482
Opus 5 $0.00041 $0.00741
Sonnet 5 $0.00016 $0.00296
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00148

Measured 10d ago against content hash b06c7420be08, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-md-improver 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 10d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

8 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

plugins/claude-md-management/skills/claude-md-improver/SKILL.md · 180 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 180 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md Improver

Audit, evaluate, and improve CLAUDE.md files across a codebase to ensure Claude Code has optimal project context.

This skill can write to CLAUDE.md files. After presenting a quality report and getting user approval, it updates CLAUDE.md files with targeted improvements.

Workflow

Phase 1: Discovery

Find all CLAUDE.md files in the repository:

find . -name "CLAUDE.md" -o -name ".claude.md" -o -name ".claude.local.md" 2>/dev/null | head -50

File Types & Locations:

Type Location Purpose
Project root ./CLAUDE.md Primary project context (checked into git, shared with team)
Local overrides ./.claude.local.md Personal/local settings (gitignored, not shared)
Global defaults ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md User-wide defaults across all projects
Package-specific ./packages/*/CLAUDE.md Module-level context in monorepos
Subdirectory Any nested location Feature/domain-specific context

Note: Claude auto-discovers CLAUDE.md files in parent directories, making monorepo setups work automatically.

Phase 2: Quality Assessment

For each CLAUDE.md file, evaluate against quality criteria. See references/quality-criteria.md for detailed rubrics.

Quick Assessment Checklist:

Criterion Weight Check
Commands/workflows documented High Are build/test/deploy commands present?
Architecture clarity High Can Claude understand the codebase structure?
Non-obvious patterns Medium Are gotchas and quirks documented?
Conciseness Medium No verbose explanations or obvious info?
Currency High Does it reflect current codebase state?
Actionability High Are instructions executable, not vague?

Quality Scores:

  • A (90-100): Comprehensive, current, actionable
  • B (70-89): Good coverage, minor gaps
  • C (50-69): Basic info, missing key sections
  • D (30-49): Sparse or outdated
  • F (0-29): Missing or severely outdated

Read the full file on GitHub · 180 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files 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. 10d ago First seen · 180 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A b06c7420be08

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claude-md-improver is a skill published in the GitHub repository anthropics/claude-plugins-official (36,069 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 1,482 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.

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