clean-code

clean-code is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from phuonghx/aim-cli. It costs 64 tokens per session (1,125 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of practical rules for writing clear, focused code with useful names and minimal unnecessary structure.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when writing or reviewing functions, naming variables, deciding whether to add abstractions, or cleaning up code before and after an edit.
Why use it?
It helps prevent duplicated logic, overly complicated designs, and code that is difficult to understand or change.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when writing or reviewing functions, naming variables, deciding whether to add abstractions, or cleaning up code before and after an edit.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 64 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,125 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 $0.00064 $0.01125
Opus 5.5 $0.00026 $0.00450
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00225
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00112

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 3294ea82f235, 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.

aim/templates/aim-agents/skills/clean-code/SKILL.md · 146 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 146 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Pragmatic Coding Standards

The aim is working software written plainly. Be concise, be direct, and solve the actual problem — nothing more.


Guiding Principles

  • One job per unit — a function or class should do a single thing.
  • No duplication — when logic repeats, lift it out and share it.
  • Simplest thing that works — favor the obvious solution over the clever one.
  • Build only what's needed — skip features no one asked for yet.
  • Leave it tidier — every file you touch should come out a little cleaner.

Naming

Thing Convention Good
Variables Say what they hold retryCount, not n
Functions Action + subject fetchOrder(), not order()
Booleans Phrase as a yes/no isReady, hasAccess, canDelete
Constants Upper snake case DEFAULT_TIMEOUT_MS

If a name needs a comment to be understood, the name is wrong — rename it.


Functions

  • Short — aim for 5–10 lines, treat 20 as a ceiling.
  • Focused — one responsibility, done well.
  • Single altitude — don't mix high-level orchestration with low-level detail in the same body.
  • Lean signatures — zero to two parameters ideally, three at most.
  • No surprise mutations — don't quietly alter the caller's data.

Structure

  • Use guard clauses to handle edge cases up front and return early.
  • Keep nesting shallow — two levels deep is plenty.
  • Prefer small pieces composed together over one sprawling block.
  • Keep related code physically close.

How to Respond While Coding

  • Feature requested → write it, skip the preamble.
  • Bug reported → fix it; don't narrate the fix.
  • Requirement unclear → ask, rather than guessing.

Anti-Patterns to Avoid

Don't Do instead
Annotate every line Drop comments that restate the code
Wrap a one-liner in a helper Inline it
Build a factory for two cases Construct them directly
Create utils.ts for a lone function Put it where it's used
Open with "First we import…" Just write the code
Nest four levels deep Flatten with guard clauses
Sprinkle magic numbers Name the constant
Write a 200-line god function Split it by responsibility

Read the full file on GitHub · 146 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. 1mo ago First seen · 146 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 3294ea82f235

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clean-code is a skill published in the GitHub repository phuonghx/aim-cli (1 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 1,125 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-31.

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