Review CLAUDE.md

Review CLAUDE.md is an AI Engineering skill for Claude Code, published by ykdojo in claude-code-tips.

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Install Review CLAUDE.md

Copy Review CLAUDE.md 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/ykdojo/claude-code-tips/tree/main/skills/review-claudemd ~/.claude/skills/review-claudemd

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/ykdojo/claude-code-tips.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/review-claudemd/SKILL.md in ykdojo/claude-code-tips
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/review-claudemd
Collection: One of 9 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: AI Engineering — 2451 skills

What Review CLAUDE.md does

Review CLAUDE.md analyzes recent Claude Code conversations to find improvements for global and project-level CLAUDE.md files. Use it to reinforce violated instructions, add project-specific patterns, and identify outdated guidance.

Review CLAUDE.md is cataloged under AI Engineering on DirSkills. Review CLAUDE.md comes from a repository tagged agentic, agentic-ai, agentic-coding, agentic-workflow and ai.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Review CLAUDE.md from conversation history

Analyze recent conversations to improve both global (~/.claude/CLAUDE.md) and local (project) CLAUDE.md files.

Step 1: Find conversation history

The project's conversation history is in ~/.claude/projects/. The folder name is the project path with slashes replaced by dashes.

# Find the project folder (replace / with -)
PROJECT_PATH=$(pwd | sed 's|/|-|g' | sed 's|^-||')
CONVO_DIR=~/.claude/projects/-${PROJECT_PATH}
ls -lt "$CONVO_DIR"/*.jsonl | head -20

Step 2: Extract recent conversations

Extract the 15-20 most recent conversations (excluding the current one) to a temp directory:

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

Frequently asked about Review CLAUDE.md

What else does ykdojo publish alongside Review CLAUDE.md?
Review CLAUDE.md is one of 9 skills that DirSkills catalogs from ykdojo/claude-code-tips, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Actions Failure Analyzer, HN Summarize and Half Clone. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Review CLAUDE.md does, and is maintained by ykdojo in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the ykdojo/claude-code-tips page.
How does Review CLAUDE.md compare to other AI Engineering skills?
Review CLAUDE.md ranks #391 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 Review CLAUDE.md against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.