optimize-cc-md

optimize-cc-md is a skill for Claude Code from pdugan20/claudelint. It costs 77 tokens per session (2,728 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An interactive helper for improving CLAUDE.md files, which store project instructions for Claude Code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to validate, assess, reorganise, shorten, or split a CLAUDE.md file into imported instruction files.
Why use it?
It identifies validation problems, quality issues, and oversized or poorly organised instructions, then guides focused improvements.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md; names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the claudelint plugin — 10 skills, 1 agent, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it to validate, assess, reorganise, shorten, or split a CLAUDE.md file into imported instruction files.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pdugan20/claudelint/optimize-cc-md
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 pdugan20/claudelint --skill optimize-cc-md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pdugan20/claudelint

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claudelint, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 10 skills, 1 agent, 1 hook.

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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,728 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: 3 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 MCP Rug Pull · line 44
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 183
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 211
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
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 $0.00077 $0.02728
Opus 5 $0.00039 $0.01364
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00546
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00273

Measured 8d ago against content hash 36d0103b5f4f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

optimize-cc-md 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 8d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (optimize-cc-md.sh), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/optimize-cc-md/SKILL.md · 317 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 317 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Optimize CLAUDE.md

An interactive skill that helps you optimize your CLAUDE.md file through a 3-phase workflow: validate, assess quality, then make guided improvements. Each phase builds on the previous one so the user understands what's wrong, why it matters, and what to do about it.

Usage

Invoke with /optimize-cc-md or say "optimize my CLAUDE.md". Optionally pass a path: /optimize-cc-md CLAUDE.md. The skill guides you through three phases: validation, quality assessment, and guided improvement.

If a specific path is provided, optimize that file: $ARGUMENTS

Workflow Overview

Phase A: Validate         Phase B: Assess Quality     Phase C: Guided Improvement
─────────────────         ───────────────────────     ───────────────────────────
Run claudelint         →  Explain issues plainly   →  Ask user what to fix
Read CLAUDE.md         →  Check quality criteria   →  Make surgical changes
Collect violations     →  Identify opportunities   →  Create @import files
                                                   →  Verify results

Phase A: Validate

Run automated validation and read the file to understand its current state.

Step 1: Run Validation

Use the Bash tool to run claudelint validation with verbose output:

npx claude-code-lint validate-claude-md --verbose

This identifies all CLAUDE.md issues including:

  • File size violations (30KB warning, 50KB error)
  • Missing or circular @imports
  • Organization problems
  • Invalid frontmatter in .claude/rules/ files
  • Glob pattern issues

Step 2: Read the CLAUDE.md File

Use the Read tool to examine the user's CLAUDE.md:

Read(file_path: "CLAUDE.md")

Understand the current structure, content, and patterns. Note:

  • Total file size and number of sections
  • Which sections are project-specific vs generic
  • Existing @import structure (if any)
  • Content that could be scoped with globs

Phase B: Assess Quality

Go beyond automated checks. Explain issues conversationally and evaluate quality using criteria that linting can't catch.

Read the full file on GitHub · 317 lines

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. 8d ago First seen · 317 lines · 77 tokens per session scan A 36d0103b5f4f

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optimize-cc-md is a skill published in the GitHub repository pdugan20/claudelint (12 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 2,728 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-30.

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