improve-codebase

improve-codebase is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fabiandistler/agents. It costs 48 tokens per session (2,456 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A codebase review that looks for places where the software could be improved, then presents candidates in an HTML report with before-and-after diagrams.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps identify architectural or implementation improvements and guide a round-by-round discussion of which one to pursue.
Why use it?
It turns a broad request to improve a codebase into a set of specific options to discuss and choose from.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit It helps identify architectural or implementation improvements and guide a round-by-round discussion of which one to pursue.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fabiandistler/agents/improve-codebase
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 fabiandistler/agents --skill improve-codebase
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/fabiandistler/agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

agentmods badge for improve-codebase

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/fabiandistler/agents/improve-codebase/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/fabiandistler/agents/improve-codebase)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/fabiandistler/agents/improve-codebase"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/fabiandistler/agents/improve-codebase/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

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.

agentmods 80×15 button for improve-codebase

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/fabiandistler/agents/improve-codebase"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/fabiandistler/agents/improve-codebase.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,456 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 unknown 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 $0.00048 $0.02456
Opus 5.5 $0.00019 $0.00982
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00491
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00246

Measured 4d ago against content hash 0aca0a9c24c0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

improve-codebase 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 4d 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/improve-codebase/SKILL.md · 214 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

7 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. 4d ago Changed · +2 lines 0aca0a9c24c0
  2. 6d ago Changed · -13 lines 1ba78168b726
  3. 8d ago Changed · +8 tokens per session a9b3d6d14741
  4. 16d ago First seen · 225 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A ff4d0a8a8abd

Subscribe to this mod's changes

improve-codebase is a skill published in the GitHub repository fabiandistler/agents (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), with no licence file. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 2,456 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 2026-10-14.

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