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Docs Cleaner

Consolidates redundant documentation through section-by-section value analysis, cutting length without losing information.

Docs & OfficeBeginner★ 1,323⑂ 212AI score 8/10Last updated: Aug 8, 2026

What it does

Finds overlapping docs, classifies every section as Keep / Condense / Delete, then merges them into a single source of truth.

  • Phase 1 – Discovery: list files on the same topic, count total lines, map overlap
  • Phase 2 – Value analysis: a table of Section / Lines / Verdict / Reason
  • Phase 3 – Consolidation plan: before-and-after line counts, reduction %, value-preserved %
  • Phase 4 – Execution: write the merged doc → delete sources → update CLAUDE.md/README references → verify no broken links

A preservation checklist forces retention of essential procedures, gotchas, troubleshooting, tech debt, external links and debug snippets, while an anti-pattern table warns against blind deletion, keeping everything, multiple sources of truth, and orphaned references.

Who it's for

  • Developers whose README, design notes and meeting logs have drifted apart
  • Teams whose CLAUDE.md and docs/ folder keep growing and eating context
  • Technical writers and PMs who want a doc refactor without information loss

Examples

  1. "Clean up the docs folder" → 3 files / 726 lines collapsed into one ~100-line doc with an 86% reduction report
  2. "Merge these install guides" → duplicated steps condensed, one-off test logs deleted with stated justification
  3. "CLAUDE.md is too long" → keep core rules inline, move details to a referenced doc and fix all links

· · · Install guide · · ·

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Install in the Claude app (no terminal)
  1. Download the ZIP with the button below.
  2. In Claude, open Settings → Capabilities and turn on 'Code execution and file creation'. (one time)
  3. Go to Customize → Skills → + → 'Upload a skill' and upload the ZIP.
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Copy the daymade-docs/docs-cleaner folder from the GitHub repo daymade/claude-code-skills into my ~/.claude/skills/docs-cleaner/.
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Install with a command instead

git clone https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills.git && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r claude-code-skills/daymade-docs/docs-cleaner ~/.claude/skills/

⚠ This is a third-party skill. Check the source repository before installing.

  1. Open a terminal.
  2. Clone the repo: git clone https://github.com/daymade/claude-code-skills.git
  3. Create the skills folder: mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
  4. Copy the skill: cp -r claude-code-skills/daymade-docs/docs-cleaner ~/.claude/skills/
  5. Confirm ~/.claude/skills/docs-cleaner/SKILL.md exists, and check whether the references/ folder came along.
  6. Restart Claude Code and ask it to "clean up docs" or "consolidate documentation".
  7. Important: this skill deletes files, so commit your current state with git commit before running it.
View source on GitHub ↗License: MIT