claude-md-improver

claude-md-improver is a skill for Claude Code from ForgeyClap/claude-forge. It costs 82 tokens per session (1,764 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of claude-md-improver, MIT.

A repository guide auditor and editor for CLAUDE.md files. These files provide project-specific instructions and context to Claude Code, including rules for particular folders or packages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review CLAUDE.md files across a codebase, including nested files in a monorepo, then update them after approval.
Why use it?
It finds the relevant instruction files, reports problems, and proposes focused improvements instead of leaving outdated guidance in the repository.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions .claude-plugin; mentions CLAUDE.md.

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).

Good fit Use it to review CLAUDE.md files across a codebase, including nested files in a monorepo, then update them after approval.

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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/ForgeyClap/claude-forge
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/forgeyclap/claude-forge/claude-md-improver

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 1,764 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 88% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.01764
Opus 5.5 $0.00033 $0.00706
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00353
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00176

Measured 21d ago against content hash 8472e0ae3ed9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 21d 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

This is a copy

88% identical to claude-md-improver — 10 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.claude/skills/claude-md-improver/SKILL.md · 190 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 190 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

Read the full file on GitHub · 190 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 21d ago First seen · 190 lines · 82 tokens per session scan A 8472e0ae3ed9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

claude-md-improver is a skill published in the GitHub repository ForgeyClap/claude-forge (2 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 82 tokens to every session and 1,764 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to claude-md-improver, differing in 10 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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