This ONE Skill Will 10x Your Claude Setup
Audit Claude regularly and remove or update unused setup items to reduce clutter, conflicting instructions, and context use.
- Review chats, projects, artifacts, and add-ons; archive or remove stale items and group the chats you keep.
- Remove duplicate or unused skills, and disable automatic invocation for skills you want to run only with a slash command.
- Audit memory, project files, connectors, and scheduled tasks; fix outdated items and pause tasks nobody uses.
The walkthrough is useful, but the audit categories and suggested fixes are covered in these notes. · Best for: Claude users with growing collections of skills, context files, connectors, or scheduled tasks.
The video demonstrates a Claude setup audit skill that reviews five areas: interface items, skills, memory and context, connectors, and scheduled tasks. It presents suggested changes for approval, then applies approved cleanup. The creator also recommends running the audit on a recurring schedule.
Why maintain a Claude setup0:00
- Accumulated chats, skills, connectors, context files, and scheduled tasks can become hard to manage.
- Outdated or conflicting instructions can affect responses; setup items may also consume context even when unused.
- The creator argues that removing obsolete instructions can help keep a setup current as models change.
How the audit skill works2:32
- The skill audits the interface, skills, memory and context files, connectors, and scheduled tasks.
- It uses five sub-agents and presents findings with suggested actions for review.
- Approve the proposed changes to let it apply them; the creator says it can also be run periodically as a scheduled task.
Clean up interface items and skills4:18
- Review chats for archiving or deletion, group retained chats, and check pinned chats, artifacts, and add-ons.
- Inspect skills for duplicates, overlap, infrequent use, accidental triggering, and context cost.
- For a skill that should run only on demand, the video describes adding `disable model invocation` so it runs via its slash command.
Refresh memory and project context8:28
- Compare memory and global instructions with recent chats to find outdated, duplicated, or conflicting rules.
- Audit project and folder files for duplicates, outdated notes, broken links, and unreferenced nodes; keep index files in larger folders.
- Review `CLAUDE.md` or `AGENTS.md` files for stale paths, missing folders, excessive length, or absent project guidance.
Review connectors11:03
- Check last use, expired logins, duplicate connectors, context cost, and whether permissions grant unnecessary write access.
- Disable unused connectors and reconnect expired ones yourself; the skill does not reconnect them.
- The video suggests considering Composio where available, or a CLI for some apps; it mentions The Printing Press as a CLI-building tool.
Audit scheduled tasks13:41
- Check when tasks last ran, whether they failed, and which model they use.
- Fix failures such as expired connector logins and pause tasks whose outputs are no longer used.
- Consider Sonnet for simpler tasks such as summaries, reserving Opus for more complex multi-step work.
Step by step
- Run the audit skill in Claude Code or Co-work and review its findings.
- Approve or adjust proposed actions for chats, projects, artifacts, add-ons, and skills.
- Update memory and instruction files; remove outdated or duplicate project context and repair links or indexes.
- Disable unused or duplicate connectors, review permissions, and reconnect any expired logins yourself.
- Pause unused or failing scheduled tasks and consider a less costly model for simple tasks.
- Schedule recurring audits, then review the checklist before approving changes.
Tools & resources mentioned
- Claude audit skill — reviews and proposes cleanup for the areas described in the video; the creator says it is available via the first description link.
- Claude Code — runs the skill with more capabilities than Co-work, according to the video.
- Claude Co-work — another place to run the skill, with limitations compared with Claude Code.
- Composio — presented as a way to connect multiple apps through one connector.
- The Printing Press — open-source tool described as building a CLI from an app's API documentation.
Notes are AI-generated from the video's transcript and may miss nuance.