Claude MD Improver

by anthropics

Claude MD Improver is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by anthropics in claude-plugins-official.

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Install Claude MD Improver

Copy Claude MD Improver into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/tree/main/plugins/claude-md-management/skills/claude-md-improver ~/.claude/skills/claude-md-improver

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/claude-md-management/skills/claude-md-improver/SKILL.md in anthropics/claude-plugins-official
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/claude-md-improver
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Claude MD Improver does

Claude MD Improver audits and improves CLAUDE.md files across a codebase so Claude Code has accurate project context. Use it when checking, updating, or maintaining CLAUDE.md files or project memory.

Claude MD Improver is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Claude MD Improver comes from a repository tagged claude-code, mcp and skills.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

CLAUDE.md Improver

Audit, evaluate, and improve CLAUDE.md files across a codebase to ensure Claude Code has optimal project context.

This skill can write to CLAUDE.md files. After presenting a quality report and getting user approval, it updates CLAUDE.md files with targeted improvements.

Workflow

Phase 1: Discovery

Find all CLAUDE.md files in the repository:

find . -name "CLAUDE.md" -o -name ".claude.md" -o -name ".claude.local.md" 2>/dev/null | head -50

File Types & Locations:

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Claude MD Improver

What else does anthropics publish alongside Claude MD Improver?
Claude MD Improver is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from anthropics/claude-plugins-official, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Agent Development, Build MCP App and Build MCP Server. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Claude MD Improver does, and is maintained by anthropics in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the anthropics/claude-plugins-official page.
How does Claude MD Improver compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Claude MD Improver ranks #160 by stars among the 2451 AI Engineering skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Architecture Decision Records, AI-First Engineering and Agentic OS. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Claude MD Improver against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.