claude-md-review SKILL.md skillB

claude-md-review from wesammustafa/claude-code-everything-you-need-to-know is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add wesammustafa/claude-code-everything-you-need-to-know/claude-md-review@git:20260728.8cd4779

Pins git:20260728.8cd4779 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
B, 16 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
wesammustafa/claude-code-everything-you-need-to-know
Path
.claude/skills/claude-md-review/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
1
Latest version
git:20260728.8cd4779, committed Jul 28, 2026
Size
4,045 bytes
Repository stars
3,462
License
MIT

Audit a CLAUDE.md file for the patterns that actually degrade Claude Code's output — vagueness, unnamed files, stale facts, and bloat. Use when asked to review, audit, improve, shrink, or fix a CLAUDE.md, and when a project's results feel inconsistent or Claude keeps rediscovering the same context.

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

# 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`.
…

Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add wesammustafa/claude-code-everything-you-need-to-know/claude-md-review@sha256:3293619fdde52896

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260728.8cd4779, 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.

Badge

mdr badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_n7eliq27oa6kqehg.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_n7eliq27oa6kqehg)

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Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 28, 2026.

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260728.8cd4779 latest2026-07-28 8cd4779 4,045 BB view

Audit of the latest version

B  16 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • fail: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (4045 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

Starting a new one? Use a template for SKILL.md on mdpantry, which passes every one of these checks and says what to change in it.

Source

GitHub

wesammustafa/claude-code-everything-you-need-to-know · 3,462 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-20 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_n7eliq27oa6kqehg
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=wesammustafa/claude-code-everything-you-need-to-know/claude-md-review
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/3293619fdde528965f09c9388349cc8ae4ebfde2d9bc86b4e818d9fa0a1bf600

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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