Honed Claude
Description
Measured, opinionated CLAUDE.md ruleset for Claude Code. No plugins, no frameworks — one markdown file + benchmarks + research.
Installation
This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no
exact command to give. Open the source below and copy the folder into
~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.
README
honed-claude
**A measured, opinionated `CLAUDE.md` for Claude Code — no plugins, no frameworks.**
*Refined against 30 days / 30,140 assistant messages of empirical adherence data.*
[](LICENSE) [](https://code.claude.com) [-brightgreen)](#contributing) [](benchmarks/measurements.md)
[Install](#install) · [Why](#why) · [Measured Impact](#measured-impact) · [Philosophy](docs/philosophy.md) · [Benchmarks](benchmarks/) · [Research](research/ecosystem-2026.md) · [Token economics](research/token-economics-2026.md)
TL;DR
Anthropic's official guidance: *"if your `CLAUDE.md` is too long, Claude ignores half of it."* This repo is what remains after 30 days of measuring which rules actually change agent behaviour — and cutting the ones that don't.
**One file. 617 tokens per session. Every rule justified by measurement.**
cp CLAUDE.md ~/.claude/CLAUDE.mdThat's the whole install.
Table of Contents
- Why
- Measured Impact
- Install
- What's in the repo
- Philosophy
- Benchmarks
- Research: the OSS ecosystem around AI coding agents
- Contributing
- Attribution
- License
Why
Every plugin you install becomes a dependency you don't control. Every rule you copy from a tutorial is untested against *your* actual agent behaviour.
`honed-claude` is a **single-file, measurement-driven** alternative:
- ✅ Empirical. Every rule survives an adherence audit against real transcript history.
- ✅ Minimal. 617 tokens per session — half of what a bloated rulese
Related Skills
Doc Co-authoring
Guide users through structured workflow for co-authoring documentation
Docx
Create, edit, and analyze Word documents with tracked changes, comments, and formatting
Extract text, create PDFs, merge/split documents, and handle forms
Pptx
Create, edit, and analyze PowerPoint presentations with layouts and templates
Xlsx
Create, edit, and analyze Excel spreadsheets with formulas, formatting, and visualization
mcp-server-fetch
Fetch and convert web pages to markdown.
