claude-md-review

claude-md-review is a skill for Claude Code from wesammustafa/Claude-Code-Everything-You-Need-to-Know. It costs 69 tokens per session (962 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review process for CLAUDE.md, a project instruction file loaded by Claude Code when it works on a codebase. It checks whether the file is vague, outdated, too large, or missing useful file references.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit, improve, shorten, or fix a project's CLAUDE.md files, including nested files and the user's global file.
Why use it?
It helps prevent unclear or stale instructions from reducing the coding assistant's results and consuming context in every session.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Good fit Use it to audit, improve, shorten, or fix a project's CLAUDE.md files, including nested files and the user's global file.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/wesammustafa/claude-code-everything-you-need-to-know/claude-md-review
About the project

Claude Code: Everything You Need to Know is a practical guide to using Claude Code, an AI coding assistant that can be extended with commands, skills, hooks, subagents, workflows, and external tool servers. Developers use it to learn Claude Code from basic prompting through team and automation setups. The catalogue entries are examples of the guide's Claude Code extensions and workflows.

wesammustafa/Claude-Code-Everything-You-Need-to-Know · 2,998 stars · on GitHub

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 wesammustafa/Claude-Code-Everything-You-Need-to-Know --skill claude-md-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/wesammustafa/Claude-Code-Everything-You-Need-to-Know

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 69 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 962 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium Rogue Agent · line 23
    Skill establishes unauthorized persistence across sessions via cron jobs, startup scripts, or state files. Session persistence allows an attacker to maintain access beyond the current interaction.
    Fix: Remove any persistence mechanisms (cron jobs, startup scripts, state files). Skills should not maintain state across sessions without explicit user consent.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00069 $0.00962
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00481
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00192
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00096

Measured 12d ago against content hash 3293619fdde5, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

claude-md-review 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 12d 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/claude-md-review/SKILL.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CLAUDE.md Review

Audit a CLAUDE.md against the failure modes that actually cost output quality.

Premise: CLAUDE.md loads into context on every single session, so every line is either paying rent or costing you tokens on every turn forever. Most "the model isn't following instructions" problems are instruction problems.

Steps

  1. Read the target file (default ./CLAUDE.md; also check ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md and any nested **/CLAUDE.md if the project has them, since the closest one wins).
  2. Score each dimension below and quote the specific lines that fail.
  3. Output the report format at the bottom. Propose concrete rewrites, not "consider being more specific."

What to check

Specificity — the highest-leverage dimension.

  • Flag unfalsifiable directives: "write clean code", "follow best practices", "be careful", "use good naming".
  • Every rule should be checkable by reading a diff. "Refactor functions over 40 lines" is checkable; "keep functions short" is not.

Named anchors.

  • Rules that reference "the config", "our API layer", or "the usual pattern" force rediscovery every session. Replace with real paths: src/config/env.ts, src/api/client.ts.
  • Verify every path, command, and filename mentioned still exists. Report the dead ones — a CLAUDE.md pointing at a deleted file actively misleads.

Staleness.

  • Version numbers, model names, and tool commands that no longer match the repo.
  • Instructions for a framework, script, or directory that's since been removed.
  • Cross-check build/test/lint commands against package.json, Makefile, pyproject.toml, or equivalent — a wrong test command is worse than none.

Bloat and rent.

  • Anything derivable from the code itself (file tree listings, dependency lists, restating what a function does). Claude can read the repo.
  • Long procedures that only apply to one occasional task: those belong in a skill, whose body loads only when used, rather than in context on every turn.
  • Generic advice that applies to all software everywhere and therefore teaches nothing about this project.

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 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. 12d ago First seen · 77 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A 3293619fdde5

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claude-md-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository wesammustafa/Claude-Code-Everything-You-Need-to-Know (2,998 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 962 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.

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