align-readmes

align-readmes is a skill for Claude Code from urmzd/dotfiles. It costs 113 tokens per session (1,312 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A tool for checking and aligning README files across a group of local repositories. A README is the main introduction and usage guide stored in a software repository.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps audit many READMEs, compare them with the project's writing rules, and update them in priority order while skipping repositories that should not be edited.
Why use it?
It finds missing, outdated, renamed, or inconsistent repository introductions before edits are made. It also tells the agent which repositories are archived or otherwise unsafe to change.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Good fit It helps audit many READMEs, compare them with the project's writing rules, and update them in priority order while skipping repositories that should not be edited.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/urmzd/dotfiles/align-readmes
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 urmzd/dotfiles --skill align-readmes
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/urmzd/dotfiles

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/urmzd/dotfiles/align-readmes/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/urmzd/dotfiles/align-readmes)
Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 113 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,312 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 $0.00113 $0.01312
Opus 5.5 $0.00045 $0.00525
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00023 $0.00262
Haiku 4.5 $0.00011 $0.00131

Measured 4d ago against content hash 5eae204b15b0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

align-readmes 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 4d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/executable_audit-readmes.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.

dot_agents/skills/align-readmes/SKILL.md · 110 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 110 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Align READMEs

One fleet, one voice. This skill owns the cross-repo loop. It does not own README rules: those live in write-readme (structure) and clean-docs (prose). Never restate them here.

Usage: /align-readmes [root] (default root: ~/github)

1. Triage before touching anything

Run the bundled audit. It is read-only.

bash "${CLAUDE_SKILL_DIR:-$HOME/.agents/skills/align-readmes}/scripts/audit-readmes.sh" ~/github

Act on the status and identity columns first:

Value Meaning Action
ARCHIVED Read-only on GitHub Skip. Never edit. List it in the report so the user can delete the local checkout.
MISSING Remote repo deleted or inaccessible Skip. Ask the user.
no-remote Local-only directory Skip unless the user names it.
dir-is:<name> Repo was renamed, folder was not Use <name> in every README edit. Do not rename the folder without asking.
stale-remote:<o/r> Remote URL predates a rename Report git remote set-url origin fix. Do not run it unasked.

Also verify against GitHub, not memory: renames happen in waves and recall goes stale.

gh repo list urmzd --limit 300 --json name,isArchived --jq '.[] | select(.isArchived) | .name'

2. Score the active set

Remaining columns map to write-readme rules:

Column Rule owner Pass
hdr write-readme: Centered Header 3
badges write-readme: Badges 1 to 4
em_dash clean-docs 0
tree write-readme: No Project Structure 0
toc_needed write-readme: ToC (300+ lines) ok or -
quick_start write-readme: Quick Start ok
skill_2nd write-readme: Agent Skill position ok, or no when the repo has no skills/
license_last write-readme: Section Order ok

The script is a fast filter, not the verdict. Read each failing README before editing.

Exempt: the urmzd profile repo is a GitHub profile page, not a project README. Skip header, Quick Start, and section-order rules for it.

Read the full file on GitHub · 110 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 4d ago First seen · 110 lines · 113 tokens per session scan A 5eae204b15b0

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align-readmes is a skill published in the GitHub repository urmzd/dotfiles (5 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 113 tokens to every session and 1,312 once invoked, about $0.0005 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 2026-10-21.

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