Claude Md Drift Audit

What it does

When your agent uses it

• Tasks that involve Agent instruction files
• Tasks that involve Git workflow

Example prompts

• “/claude-md-drift-audit”

Requirements

• Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Glob, Grep, Bash(git log:*), Bash(git diff:*), Bash(git status:*), Bash(find:*)

Workflow steps

5 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

1. 1Inventory every CLAUDE.md and *.claude/rules/*.md in the tree using find . -name "CLAUDE.md" -type f -not -path "*/.git/*" -not -path…
2. 2Collect change signal for the window
3. 3Cross-reference each CLAUDE.md against those signals using grep / Read
4. 4Return the punch list in this exact shape (markdown), nothing else
5. 5If no drift is found, return exactly ## Drift Audit\n\nNo drift in -day window. files inspected.. Do not pad the output.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 032c5e5. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

• Tool permissions

  Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

  • Read
  • Glob
  • Grep
  • Bash(git log:*)
  • Bash(git diff:*)
  • Bash(git status:*)
  • Bash(find:*)

  From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

• Runs code

  Shell commands in SKILL.md call:

  • git

  From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

• Network

  No URLs in SKILL.md. Its commands use git, which can reach the network depending on how they are called.

  From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

• Credentials

  Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

  From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Claude Md Drift Audit loads about 559 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 60 tokens; SKILL.md has 169 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it

~60

When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches

~559

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from alirezarezvani/ClaudeForge at commit 032c5e5, republished under its MIT licence (© alirezarezvani). 169 words, ~559 tokens.

name

claude-md-drift-audit

description

Audit every CLAUDE.md in this project for drift against the last week of git history. Flags sections that reference deleted files, renamed paths, or removed dependencies. Read-only — returns a punch list, never edits.

allowed-tools

Read, Glob, Grep, Bash(git log:*), Bash(git diff:*), Bash(git status:*), Bash(find:*)

when_to_use

Use when the user asks "is my CLAUDE.md still accurate?", "audit my docs for staleness", "what changed in the last week?", or as part of /sync-claude-md…

argument-hint

[days=7]

context

fork

agent

Explore

disable-model-invocation

false

## Drift Audit (window: <N> days)

Total CLAUDE.md inspected: <count>
Signals examined: <deleted_paths>, <renamed_paths>, <removed_deps>

### Findings
- <path>:<line> — <one-sentence reason> — suggested action
- ... (one bullet per drift; omit section if empty)

### Clean
- <path> (lines unchanged, references valid)

© alirezarezvani, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skill/claude-md-drift-audit of alirezarezvani/ClaudeForge.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 032c5e5