clean-code

A code-maintenance workflow that formats files, runs the project's linters, and fixes reported warnings and errors across the whole codebase, including tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before handing off or merging code to clean formatting, fix lint problems, and verify that the project passes its configured clean-code check.
Why use it?
It prevents warnings from accumulating and catches older problems that would otherwise remain hidden. It also requires checking that the code finishes with no reported issues.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/flurdy/agent-skills/clean-code
Any agent
npx skills add flurdy/agent-skills --skill clean-code
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/flurdy/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 25 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 336 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00025 $0.00336
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00168
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00067
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00034

Measured 2d ago against content hash 24fbb5ccacd0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

clean-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 2d 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/clean-code/SKILL.md · 53 lines

What it actually says

Clean Code

Format, lint, and fix all warnings across the entire codebase — including test files and pre-existing issues.

Usage

/clean-code

Instructions

1. Run the project's clean-code target

Each project defines a make clean-code Makefile target with the appropriate tooling for its language/stack.

make clean-code

2. Fix remaining issues

If make clean-code fails or reports warnings/errors that couldn't be auto-fixed, investigate and fix them manually. Do NOT leave any warnings unresolved.

3. Verify clean state

Re-run the target to confirm it passes cleanly:

make clean-code

It must exit with zero warnings and zero errors.

Rules

  • Do not skip or suppress warnings (e.g. eslint-disable, #[allow(...)], @SuppressWarnings) unless there is a genuine false positive with a clear justification
  • Do not change the project's formatter or linter configuration
  • If a fix changes behavior (not just style), flag it to the user before applying
  • Test files are in scope — do not skip them
  • Pre-existing issues must be fixed, not just new code
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. 2d ago First seen · 53 lines · 25 tokens per session scan A 24fbb5ccacd0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

clean-code is a skill published in the GitHub repository flurdy/agent-skills (7 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 25 tokens to every session and 336 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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