claude-md-improver

claude-md-improver is a skill for Claude Code from runnithan/claudex-setup. It costs 75 tokens per session (1,696 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of claude-md-improver, MIT.

A guide for reviewing and improving CLAUDE.md files, which are project instruction files read by Claude Code. It checks files across a codebase, reports their quality, and proposes targeted updates.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find CLAUDE.md files, assess their contents, produce a quality report, and update them after approval.
Why use it?
It helps keep the instructions given to an AI coding assistant accurate, complete, and useful. This matters especially in a monorepo, a repository containing several related projects or packages, where different folders may have their own instructions.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disallowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; reads .claude/ paths; mentions CLAUDE.md.

Needs its repository: it runs a file that does not travel with it, so clone the repository first. The line is #### 2. ./packages/api/CLAUDE.md (Package-specific).

Part of the claudex-setup plugin — 3 skills, 21 commands, 6 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it to find CLAUDE.md files, assess their contents, produce a quality report, and update them after approval.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

It runs from inside its repository, so the clone comes first — what it calls does not travel with the file alone.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/runnithan/claudex-setup
agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/runnithan/claudex-setup/claude-md-improver

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claudex-setup, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 21 commands, 6 agents.

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Per session 75 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,696 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 86% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00075 $0.01696
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00848
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00339
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00170

Measured 8d ago against content hash 5405d49a6f20, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-md-improver 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.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

86% identical to claude-md-improver — 16 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/claude-md-improver/SKILL.md · 192 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 192 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md Improver

Audit, evaluate, and improve CLAUDE.md files across a codebase to ensure Claude Code has optimal project context.

This skill can write to CLAUDE.md files. After presenting a quality report and getting user approval, it updates CLAUDE.md files with targeted improvements.

Workflow

Phase 1: Discovery

Find all CLAUDE.md files in the repository:

find . -name "CLAUDE.md" -o -name ".claude.md" -o -name ".claude.local.md" 2>/dev/null | head -50

File Types & Locations:

Type Location Purpose
Project root ./CLAUDE.md Primary project context (checked into git, shared with team)
Local overrides ./.claude.local.md Personal/local settings (gitignored, not shared)
Global defaults ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md User-wide defaults across all projects
Package-specific ./packages/*/CLAUDE.md Module-level context in monorepos
Subdirectory Any nested location Feature/domain-specific context

Note: Claude auto-discovers CLAUDE.md files in parent directories, making monorepo setups work automatically.

Phase 2: Quality Assessment

For each CLAUDE.md file, evaluate against quality criteria. See references/quality-criteria.md for detailed rubrics.

Quick Assessment Checklist:

Criterion Weight Check
Commands/workflows documented High Are build/test/deploy commands present?
Architecture clarity High Can Claude understand the codebase structure?
Non-obvious patterns Medium Are gotchas and quirks documented?
Conciseness Medium No verbose explanations or obvious info?
Currency High Does it reflect current codebase state?
Actionability High Are instructions executable, not vague?

Quality Scores:

  • A (90-100): Comprehensive, current, actionable
  • B (70-89): Good coverage, minor gaps
  • C (50-69): Basic info, missing key sections
  • D (30-49): Sparse or outdated
  • F (0-29): Missing or severely outdated

Read the full file on GitHub · 192 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 8d ago First seen · 192 lines · 75 tokens per session scan A 5405d49a6f20

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claude-md-improver is a skill published in the GitHub repository runnithan/claudex-setup (1 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 75 tokens to every session and 1,696 once invoked, about $0.0004 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 86% identical to claude-md-improver, differing in 16 lines, and is treated as a copy.