improve

A prompt-rewriting guide that turns rough requests into XML-structured prompts for Claude Sonnet 5. XML is a tag-based text format used here to organise instructions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Rewriting rough prompts into an XML layout suitable for Claude Sonnet 5.
Why use it?
It makes loosely written requests more structured and targeted for the specified model.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/robiparvez/claude-code-guidelines/improve
Any agent
npx skills add robiparvez/claude-code-guidelines --skill improve
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/robiparvez/claude-code-guidelines

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 22 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,020 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00022 $0.01020
Opus 5 $0.00011 $0.00510
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00204
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00102

Measured 2d ago against content hash 9d72d5f75c1e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

improve 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 2d 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.

.claude/skills/improve/SKILL.md · 74 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 2d ago First seen · 74 lines · 22 tokens per session scan A 9d72d5f75c1e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

improve is a skill published in the GitHub repository robiparvez/claude-code-guidelines (2 stars, last pushed 25d ago), with no licence file. It adds 22 tokens to every session and 1,020 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.

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