dry

dry is a skill for Claude Code from whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills. It costs 70 tokens per session (2,283 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code-review and refactoring guide based on the DRY principle, which means avoiding repeated logic. It looks for duplication in interface components, database structures, and workflows.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after adding features or when a codebase has become bloated, particularly to inspect repeated UI, database, or workflow patterns and plan their removal.
Why use it?
Repeated code can drift apart: a fix made in one copy may be missed in another. The guide helps find those copies and consolidate them safely.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: mentions Claude Code.

Part of the solo-founder-skills plugin — 54 skills, 1 command shipped together

Good fit Use it after adding features or when a codebase has become bloated, particularly to inspect repeated UI, database, or workflow patterns and plan their removal.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills/dry
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 whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills --skill dry
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install solo-founder-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 54 skills, 1 command.

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Per session 70 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,283 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00070 $0.02283
Opus 5 $0.00035 $0.01141
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00457
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00228

Measured 12d ago against content hash c05a5300ec36, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

dry 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.

skills/dry/SKILL.md · 230 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 230 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Don't Repeat Yourself

Find and eliminate duplication across your codebase. Every duplicate is a future bug — when you fix something in one place but forget the copy, users hit the unfixed version.

This skill audits and refactors. For building features, use build. For general performance optimization, use optimize. For database schema design from scratch, use database. For UI component selection, use ui-patterns.

Two Modes

Mode When Scope Time
Quick scan After building a feature, or on request Recent changes vs. existing codebase 2-5 minutes
Deep audit Codebase feels bloated, periodic cleanup Entire codebase, all three domains 15-30 minutes

Choose quick scan after implementing features, adding new pages, or building new API endpoints. Choose deep audit when the codebase has grown through many rounds of AI-assisted iteration, or quarterly as hygiene.


Quick Scan Workflow

Run this after building or modifying a feature.

Quick DRY scan:
- [ ] Identify what was just built or changed
- [ ] Search for similar patterns in existing codebase
- [ ] Flag any duplication with specific file locations
- [ ] Refactor: extract shared code, reuse existing components
- [ ] Verify nothing broke after refactoring

Process

  1. Identify the change — What files were just created or modified?
  2. Search for siblings — For each new component, function, or query: does something similar already exist?
  3. Decide: reuse or extract — If a near-duplicate exists, reuse it. If two things are now similar, extract a shared version.
  4. Refactor — Make the change, run build and tests.

What to Search For

  • New component created → search for components with similar props, layout, or purpose
  • New utility function → search for functions with similar signatures or logic
  • New API endpoint → search for endpoints with similar query patterns or response shapes
  • New database query → search for queries hitting the same tables with similar conditions

Read the full file on GitHub · 230 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. 12d ago First seen · 230 lines · 70 tokens per session scan A c05a5300ec36

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dry is a skill published in the GitHub repository whawkinsiv/solo-founder-skills (243 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 70 tokens to every session and 2,283 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.