Large File Refactor is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the code-quality sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/large-file-refactor/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.
When to invoke it: Use when Claude Code hits "File content exceeds maximum allowed tokens" error, or when files are too large to read. Helps analyze and break apart large files into smaller, focused modules.
The Large File Refactor skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/large-file-refactor curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/large-file-refactor/SKILL.md \ -o ~/.claude/skills/large-file-refactor/SKILL.md
Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/large-file-refactor/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.
Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/large-file-refactor/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\large-file-refactor\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.
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