Heal Skill — Development skill for Claude Code
Fix incorrect SKILL.md files when a skill has wrong instructions or outdated API references.
How to install Heal Skill
Installs to ~/.claude/skills/barkleesanders-claude-code-starter-heal-skill/SKILL.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/barkleesanders-claude-code-starter-heal-skill && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/barkleesanders/claude-code-starter/HEAD/commands/heal-skill.md -o ~/.claude/skills/barkleesanders-claude-code-starter-heal-skill/SKILL.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Heal Skill does
name: heal-skill description: Fix incorrect SKILL.md files when a skill has wrong instructions or outdated API references argument-hint: [optional: specific issue to fix] allowed-tools: [Read, Edit, Bash(ls:*), Bash(git:*)]
Update a skill's SKILL.md and related files based on corrections discovered during execution.Analyze the conversation to detect which skill is running, reflect on what went wrong, propose specific fixes, get user approval, then apply changes with option
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