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Refactor Claude Md — Code Quality skill for Claude Code

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Refactor CLAUDE.md by extracting sections to dedicated docs with path-scoped rules.

How to install Refactor Claude Md

Installs to ~/.claude/commands/nimbalyst-nimbalyst-refactor-claude-md.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Nimbalyst/nimbalyst/HEAD/.claude/commands/refactor-claude-md.md -o ~/.claude/commands/nimbalyst-nimbalyst-refactor-claude-md.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Refactor Claude Md does

description: Refactor CLAUDE.md by extracting sections to dedicated docs with path-scoped rules

You are helping refactor a CLAUDE.md file to reduce its size while preserving guidance through dedicated documentation files and path-scoped rules.

Process

**Read and analyze** the current CLAUDE.md file in its entirety
**Identify extraction candidates** - sections that are:
- Cross-cutting patterns (not core setup/architecture)
- Specific to certain file types or components

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