How do I install the Polish Code Base Claude Code skill?

Install via the ClaudSkills desktop app (one click) or copy SKILL.md from the source repository to ~/.claude/skills/polish-code-base/SKILL.md and restart Claude Code. Both flows are detailed at https://claudskills.com/install/.

Is this skill free to install?

Yes. ClaudSkills is an open registry — every skill keeps its source repository's license, and manual install via copy is free. ClaudSkills Pro ($9/mo, $79/yr, or $149 one-time) adds one-click install via the desktop app and a multi-signal Quality Score.

ClaudSkills / Engineering / code-quality

Polish Code Base

Category: Engineering · Sub-category: code-quality · Last updated: 2026-05-21

Use this skill to walk through an existing code base and fix surface-level problems that are obvious on a careful read: typos, grammar mistakes in comments and strings, inconsistent naming or formatting, dead imports, stale references, broken links, mismatched casing, and small contradictions between neighboring files. Stay on the visible layer — do not refactor logic, do not run unit tests, and do not chase deep design issues. Apply each fix directly when it is obvious, and report borderline cases for the author to decide.

From the source SKILL.md

Walk the repository top-down: README, configuration files, then source directories in the order a newcomer would read them, so the polish covers the parts a reader sees first.

What this skill does

Polish Code Base is a community-contributed Claude Code skill in the code-quality sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/polish-code-base/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

Who uses this skill

The Polish Code Base Claude Code skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. It's part of ClaudSkills (also referred to as Claude Skills or Claude Code Skills) — the open community-curated registry of 69,000+ SKILL.md files for Anthropic's Claude Code agent and the wider Claude ecosystem (Claude API, Claude Agent SDK).

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/polish-code-base
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/polish-code-base/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/polish-code-base/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/polish-code-base/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/polish-code-base/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\polish-code-base\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

Pro

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Attribution & license

Source: https://github.com/yegor256/skills/blob/HEAD/skills/polish-code-base/SKILL.md
License: MIT
Author: yegor256

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Polish Code Base

From the source SKILL.md

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Manual install (2 steps)

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