code-docs-cleanup

code-docs-cleanup is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from grimoire-rs/grimoire. It costs 205 tokens per session (7,870 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A procedure for shortening source-code comments while preserving guards: notes that explain a non-obvious constraint and what could break if it changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps clean up comments in source files, identify constraints worth keeping, and check that their meaning remains after editing.
Why use it?
It reduces verbose comments without removing information that future developers or coding agents need before editing sensitive code.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit It helps clean up comments in source files, identify constraints worth keeping, and check that their meaning remains after editing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/grimoire-rs/grimoire/code-docs-cleanup
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 grimoire-rs/grimoire --skill code-docs-cleanup
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/grimoire-rs/grimoire

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 205 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 7,870 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 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 $0.00205 $0.07870
Opus 5.5 $0.00082 $0.03148
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00041 $0.01574
Haiku 4.5 $0.00020 $0.00787

Measured 12d ago against content hash 73b7cdcc6797, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

code-docs-cleanup 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 12d 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.

.agents/skills/code-docs-cleanup/SKILL.md · 476 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 476 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

code-docs-cleanup

Shorten the comments in a source file without losing a guard. A guard is any clause that names a constraint a plausible edit would break, with or without the consequence. It is how the next agent learns why a non-obvious line looks the way it does and whether it may change it.

The comment standards live in the installed code-docs rule, cited here by ID: GRD (guards), RTE (routing), LNK (pointers and IDs), SRF (rendered surfaces) and LEN (length and ratchet). The cleanup-safety rules, CLN, are this skill's own: Cleanup rules. Three facts shape every step (as of 2026-09):

  • In agent-written code most comment lines are guards and contracts, not essays. Deleting by category or by length deletes guards.
  • The shipped guard recogniser finds fewer than half of real guards (recall about 0.43). A block it does not flag is unclassified, never safe to cut.
  • The editing agent's belief that the meaning survived is not evidence. The structural check and a cold re-check are.

Contents: When to run · Setup · Scope · Procedure · Never touch · Cleanup rules · Report · MUST rows · What agents get wrong · References

When to run

Run it when:

  • A change already edits a file whose comments are over the length caps (LEN-01, LEN-02), carry bare process IDs (LNK-01), or hold an essay.
  • The owner names files for a sweep, or asks to bring a package down before its ratchet baseline is recorded (LEN-03).
  • A review flags an over-cap block, or a pointer left beside the essay it was meant to replace (RTE-09).

Do not run it when:

  • The text renders to users: --help, JSON Schema, MCP tool descriptions, argparse or commander help, or a published package's API docs. That is an interface change (SRF-01, SRF-02). It moves rationale into plain comments and may regenerate goldens, which this skill never does.
  • The file is a test, generated, vendored, a lock or manifest file, or a golden. Bare IDs in test files and test regions (LNK-01's bare-id-test key) go in a separate test-only change: list them in the report.
  • Another branch has the file in flight (see Scope).
  • The fix is code: a type that owns a guard (GRD-12), a lint to enable (GRD-09, GRD-10), a test to rename. Each is its own reviewable diff.
  • The repo's own rules protect the comment kind, for example a local rule that keeps section dividers or phase markers. The local rule wins until it is amended. Leave those comments and report the conflict.

Read the full file on GitHub · 476 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. 12d ago First seen · 476 lines · 205 tokens per session scan A 73b7cdcc6797

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code-docs-cleanup is a skill published in the GitHub repository grimoire-rs/grimoire (14 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 205 tokens to every session and 7,870 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-10-05.