smart-edit

smart-edit is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from huzaifa525/claude-code-optimizer. It costs 20 tokens per session (432 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided process for changing code while matching the patterns already used in a project. It covers finding similar examples, checking project rules, planning files, implementing the change, and running tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when adding a feature or modifying code to inspect at least two similar examples, follow local configuration, update tests, and verify the result.
Why use it?
It reduces inconsistent naming, misplaced files, and changes that ignore existing conventions or break current behavior.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the claude-code-optimizer plugin — 25 skills, 4 hooks shipped together

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/huzaifa525/claude-code-optimizer/smart-edit
Any agent
npx skills add huzaifa525/claude-code-optimizer --skill smart-edit
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/huzaifa525/claude-code-optimizer

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install claude-code-optimizer, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 25 skills, 4 hooks.

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 smart-edit

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/huzaifa525/claude-code-optimizer/smart-edit.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/huzaifa525/claude-code-optimizer/smart-edit)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/huzaifa525/claude-code-optimizer/smart-edit"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/huzaifa525/claude-code-optimizer/smart-edit.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 432 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 $0.00020 $0.00432
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00216
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00086
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00043

Measured 3d ago against content hash af3053c017f1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

smart-edit 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 3d 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.

templates/.claude/skills/smart-edit/SKILL.md · 49 lines

What it actually says

Before making any changes for $ARGUMENTS, follow this process:

1. Find Similar Examples

  • Search for existing code that does something similar
  • Read at least 2 examples of the same pattern in this codebase
  • Note: naming conventions, file locations, import styles, error handling

2. Check Conventions

  • Read CLAUDE.md and any relevant .claude/rules/ files
  • Look for linting config (.eslintrc, .prettierrc, ruff.toml, etc.)
  • Check if there's a template or generator for this type of change

3. Plan the Change

  • List all files that need to be created or modified
  • Identify the order of changes (dependencies first)
  • Note any tests that need to be added or updated

4. Implement

  • Follow the exact patterns found in step 1
  • Match naming, structure, and style exactly
  • Add tests following the existing test patterns

5. Verify

  • Run the relevant test command
  • Check that no existing tests broke
  • Verify the change integrates with existing code

Pre-Delivery Checklist

Before presenting the result, verify:

  • At least 2 similar examples were read from the codebase
  • Naming matches existing conventions (casing, prefixes, suffixes)
  • File location follows existing project structure
  • Import style matches the codebase (relative vs absolute, named vs default)
  • Error handling follows existing patterns (not invented new ones)
  • Tests added following existing test patterns
  • No unrelated changes or "while I'm here" improvements
  • Linter/formatter would pass on the 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. 3d ago First seen · 49 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A af3053c017f1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

smart-edit is a skill published in the GitHub repository huzaifa525/claude-code-optimizer (9 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 432 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.