clean-code

clean-code is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from liza-mas/liza. It costs 10 tokens per session (3,663 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A pre-commit code-cleanup guide for making changed code easier for the next developer to read and maintain.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review staged changes, clean a whole file, or inspect the changes from a specific Git commit.
Why use it?
It helps catch unnecessary complexity before code is committed, while avoiding generated, third-party, deleted, or known-buggy code.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to review staged changes, clean a whole file, or inspect the changes from a specific Git commit.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/liza-mas/liza/clean-code
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 liza-mas/liza --skill clean-code
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/liza-mas/liza

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 clean-code

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/liza-mas/liza/clean-code/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/liza-mas/liza/clean-code)
Your own site
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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 clean-code

Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 10 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,663 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Excessive Agency · line 291
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
  • medium Excessive Agency · line 292
    Skill enables autonomous high-impact decisions without human-in-the-loop verification. Critical operations (destructive commands, financial transactions, data deletion) should require explicit user confirmation.
    Fix: Add human-in-the-loop confirmation for destructive, irreversible, or high-impact operations. Never auto-execute commands that modify files, send data, or alter system state.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00010 $0.03663
Opus 5.5 $0.00004 $0.01465
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00002 $0.00733
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00366

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 2bad5f21db74, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 1mo 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 · 351 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 351 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Clean Code is a reader's gift — refactor for the next developer, not the compiler.

Boy Scout Rule: Leave the code cleaner than you found it.

Input

Argument Scope Source Pre-flight
(none) git diff --cached Full (staged changes required)
<commit-sha> git diff <sha>^..<sha> Validation + concurrent work only

When a commit SHA is provided, changes are made directly to files — the user reviews and amends. Skip staging-dependent pre-flight steps (staged check, stash backup).

Modes

Mode Scope When
Staged (default) git diff --cached Pre-commit cleanup
Full-file Any file (no staging required) Deeper refactoring session

Announce mode: "Cleaning in [mode]. Override?"

Exclusion Criteria

Do not clean:

  • Generated code — will be overwritten on next generation
  • Vendored/third-party code — clean upstream, not the copy
  • Code scheduled for deletion — verify: open task/PR to remove?
  • Code with known bugs in staged area — refactoring may mask the bug or make it harder to isolate. Fix bug first, then clean.
  • Files under active development on other branches — see concurrent work check; requires acknowledgment

If exclusion is uncertain, ask. The default is to skip, not to clean.

Pre-flight Checks

  1. Language detection — detect from staged file extensions, load languages/<lang>.md. Populates $TEST_CMD, $COVERAGE_CMD, and all Tool Map variables. See Language-Specific Patterns. Mixed languages: see that section's mixed-language rule.

  2. Staged changes exist (skip when commit SHA provided)

   git diff --cached --quiet && echo "Nothing staged" && exit 1
  1. Tests pass (Pairing only; multi-agent mode uses task-focused tests)
   $TEST_CMD || exit 1
  1. Coverage gate (tiered by transformation risk; Pairing runs it, multi-agent mode reuses existing task-scoped evidence)
  • Pairing: Run $COVERAGE_CMD && diff-cover $COVERAGE_REPORT --compare-branch=HEAD
  • diff-cover maps coverage to staged hunks (language-agnostic — any Cobertura XML)

Read the full file on GitHub · 351 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 1mo ago Changed · +10 lines 2bad5f21db74
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 341 lines · 10 tokens per session scan A a73b52401454

Subscribe to this mod's changes

clean-code is a skill published in the GitHub repository liza-mas/liza (410 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 10 tokens to every session and 3,663 once invoked, about $0.0000 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 2026-08-30.

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