edit-claude

edit-claude is a skill for Claude Code from digital-stoic-org/agent-skills. It costs 51 tokens per session (2,828 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An instruction-file editor for creating, updating, and shortening CLAUDE.md files, which store project guidance for a coding agent.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create or revise CLAUDE.md files and remove repetition, sensitive details, or outdated guidance.
Why use it?
It keeps persistent project rules, coding standards, and context clearer and less wasteful.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the toolsmith plugin — 5 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to create or revise CLAUDE.md files and remove repetition, sensitive details, or outdated guidance.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/digital-stoic-org/agent-skills/edit-claude
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 digital-stoic-org/agent-skills --skill edit-claude
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/digital-stoic-org/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install toolsmith, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 5 skills.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 51 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,828 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
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Anti-Refusal · line 142
    Skill instructs the agent to omit warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Stripping safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.
    Fix: Remove instructions that suppress warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Let the agent surface safety-relevant caveats to the user.
  • medium Rogue Agent · line 17
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
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 $0.00051 $0.02828
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.01131
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00566
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00283

Measured 29d ago against content hash 82028358d2f9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

edit-claude 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 29d 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.

toolsmith/skills/edit-claude/SKILL.md · 203 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 203 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Instructions for Managing CLAUDE.md Files

Determine Action Type

CREATE: New CLAUDE.md file requested UPDATE: Modify existing CLAUDE.md (keywords: "update", "add", "modify", "change") OPTIMIZE: Audit and clean an existing CLAUDE.md chain (keywords: "optimize", "audit", "clean up", "reduce tokens", "improve")

Updating Existing CLAUDE.md Files

Make surgical edits in the relevant section (or a new heading), preserving the file's existing organization. After editing, check the file's line count against the size guidance below, because longer files consume more context and may reduce adherence.

Optimizing CLAUDE.md Files

The goal is that every line earns its place for the current model, not the shortest file. Rules lose value when cut from their reason, so compress wording, never reasons.

  1. Dated-pattern pass: invoke /claude-api prompt-audit scoped to the CLAUDE.md chain (and .claude/rules/), with the current session model as target. It returns a report and a diff covering pressure language, fossils and restated defaults. Call it by skill name only: its bundled file path is versioned per Claude Code release and breaks on upgrade, and a copy here would go stale, so do not copy it either.
  2. CLAUDE.md-specific pass (prompt-audit does not cover these):
    • Move path/domain-specific content to .claude/rules/ with paths frontmatter, so it loads only when needed; @imports can organize long material but still load at launch
    • Remove secrets and frequently changing data
    • Check each file's line count (wc -l) and what actually loads (/context) against the size guidance below
  3. Present both diffs and apply only what the user accepts.

See reference.md § Optimization Strategies for rewrite examples.

Fit check (CREATE)

CLAUDE.md is loaded into every session, so it only holds content that is persistent, used in most sessions, and non-sensitive. Route what fails that to its better home and say so: secrets to env vars, one-off asks to the conversation, long docs to a README referenced by path, detailed guidelines to .claude/rules/. For mixed requests, write the part that fits and route the rest.

Read the full file on GitHub · 203 lines

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. 29d ago Changed · -36 lines 82028358d2f9
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 239 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 6df05084cdf8

Subscribe to this mod's changes

edit-claude is a skill published in the GitHub repository digital-stoic-org/agent-skills (20 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 51 tokens to every session and 2,828 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 2026-09-04.

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