claude-md-optimizer

claude-md-optimizer is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from smith-horn/product-builder-starter. It costs 76 tokens per session (1,818 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A skill for shortening oversized CLAUDE.md instruction files by separating detailed guidance into additional documents. It uses progressive disclosure, meaning the agent sees essential instructions first and extra detail when needed.

In plain words
What is it for?
Analyzing and restructuring long CLAUDE.md files, detecting encryption constraints, creating supporting documents, and adding a table that links to them.
Why use it?
It reduces clutter in the main instruction file while keeping the detailed guidance available.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Analyzing and restructuring long CLAUDE.md files, detecting encryption constraints, creating supporting documents, and adding a table that links to them.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/smith-horn/product-builder-starter/claude-md-optimizer
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 smith-horn/product-builder-starter --skill claude-md-optimizer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/smith-horn/product-builder-starter

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,818 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 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 5.1 $0.00076 $0.01818
Opus 5 $0.00038 $0.00909
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00364
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00182

Measured 10d ago against content hash ead3cc01e7bc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-md-optimizer 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 10d 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/claude-md-optimizer/SKILL.md · 185 lines

The source is not reproduced here

A licence we could not identify

The repository carries a LICENSE file, but it is custom or dual enough that GitHub cannot name it and neither can this catalogue. Unknown terms are not permission, so the body is not copied here. Read the licence at the source and decide for yourself.

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Files

What ships with it

5 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. 10d ago First seen · 185 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A ead3cc01e7bc

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claude-md-optimizer is a skill published in the GitHub repository smith-horn/product-builder-starter (10 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 1,818 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 2026-08-31.

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