improve-claude-code SKILL.md skillA

improve-claude-code from bendrucker/claude is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add bendrucker/claude/improve-claude-code@git:20261020.56c0e8f

Pins git:20261020.56c0e8f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
bendrucker/claude
Path
user/skills/improve-claude-code/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
8
Latest version
git:20261020.56c0e8f, committed Oct 20, 2026
First version recorded
Jul 25, 2026
Size
6,524 bytes
Repository stars
18
License
MIT

Triage and batch-implement Claude-tagged Things todos as PRs for the claude config repo, discover improvement candidates from session history, or watch open PRs to implement review feedback and close shipped todos. Use when the user wants to work on their Claude Code improvement backlog, process Things todos tagged claude-code, batch-implement configuration changes, mine session history for grounded config-change candidates (Discover mode), or watch this skill's open PRs for review feedback…

Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.

What the file says

# Improve Claude Code

Work through the `claude-code` Things backlog: fetch todos, triage with the user, then plan and implement each in parallel as separate PRs.

The backlog has two sources. The user files todos tagged `claude-code` by hand (and `agent-ideas` files external-harvest ideas in the same shape). Discover mode mines session history for config-change candidates and files the keepers as `claude-code` todos. Both sources feed the one implement loop below.

In every mode, the loop itself is in scope: this skill's own SKILL.md, the `observability:session` skill's queries and views, and the Things scripts the loop depends on. Findings in that class may be dispatched to background worktree agents immediately, even when everything else routes to planning or triage discussion.

All Things interaction goes through the `things:jxa` and `things:url` skills (never inline JXA). PRs go through `pull-request:create` (never `gh pr create`).

## Arguments

`$0` (optional mode) routes to a workflow. With no mode, run the default backlog loop: [Fetch and Triage](#fetch-and-triage) the `claude-code` todos, then plan and implement the selection as PRs.
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add bendrucker/claude/improve-claude-code@sha256:8648a827be6f1ecd

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261020.56c0e8f, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.

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Versions

The registry has recorded 8 versions of this file, between Jul 25, 2026 and Oct 20, 2026, about one every 12 days.

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git:20261020.56c0e8f latest2026-10-20 56c0e8f 6,524 BA view · diff
git:20261019.a50bf4f2026-10-19 a50bf4f 6,524 BA view · diff
git:20261006.a8823712026-10-06 a882371 6,589 BA view · diff
git:20260808.cbedc322026-08-08 cbedc32 6,593 BA view · diff
git:20260727.14c22cf2026-07-27 14c22cf 8,947 BA view · diff
git:20260725.b6c92442026-07-25 b6c9244 26,774 BA view · diff
git:20260725.f2574cb2026-07-25 f2574cb 26,365 BA view · diff
git:20260725.11a8d8d2026-07-25 11a8d8d 25,426 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (6524 bytes)
  • pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
  • pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
  • pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
  • pass: No credential-shaped string
  • pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
  • pass: No text hidden with inline styles
  • pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
  • pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
  • pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
  • pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
  • pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
  • pass: No link to a raw IP address
  • pass: No script tag

Source

GitHub

bendrucker/claude · 18 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_lmufbwu5eofiny6y
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=bendrucker/claude/improve-claude-code
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8648a827be6f1ecd19ffff69b1d121fe4fcb7bd3b23e3274571fae564f5a4a8c

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