Cleaning Comments

Cleaning Comments is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by LerianStudio in ring.

210 stars27 forkson LerianStudio/ringAdded 2026/09/04Repository updated 2026/08/19

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Install Cleaning Comments

Copy Cleaning Comments 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/LerianStudio/ring/tree/main/default/skills/cleaning-comments ~/.claude/skills/cleaning-comments

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/LerianStudio/ring.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: default/skills/cleaning-comments/SKILL.md in LerianStudio/ring
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/cleaning-comments
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1557 skills

What Cleaning Comments does

Cleaning Comments removes redundant, obvious, and commented-out code comments while preserving intent, warnings, and documentation. Use it during code review or post-refactor cleanup, including git-scoped changes.

Cleaning Comments is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Cleaning Comments comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, ai-coding, claude-code, code-quality and code-review.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Cleaning Comments

When to use

Code has excessive, redundant, or obvious comments
During code review or post-refactor cleanup
Before committing to clean up comment noise in changed files
Codebase has accumulated commented-out code blocks

Skip when

Reviewing documentation files (README, docs/, etc.)
Comments are already minimal and meaningful
Working with generated code or third-party files

Sequence

Runs after: ring:exploring-codebases (optional, for architecture context)

Complementary: ring:exploring-codebases — run first for architecture-aware cleaning that preserves critical documentation

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

Frequently asked about Cleaning Comments

What else does LerianStudio publish alongside Cleaning Comments?
Cleaning Comments is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from LerianStudio/ring, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Adopt The Huma OpenAPI Wrapper, Analyzing Options and Code Review. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Cleaning Comments does, and is maintained by LerianStudio in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the LerianStudio/ring page.
How does Cleaning Comments compare to other Quality skills?
Cleaning Comments ranks #1430 by stars among the 1557 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. 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 Cleaning Comments against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.