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ratchet-files

95 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try. Some of what it can do is expected: a coding skill usually runs build and test commands.

By dzhng/skills (GitHub) · coding · 1,470 stars · scanned at commit 828e386

Ratchet source file size so every file stays small enough for an agent to read whole: find every file over a token budget, split oversized files by concept, and set up the pre-commit ratchet that stops them from growing. Use when a commit is blocked because a file is over the size budget, when asked to find or split oversized/long/god files, when a file you need to change is too large to read in one pass, or when asked to add a file-size limit or hook to a repository or repair commit-hook cover…

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

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What this skill can do

Install

Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'ratchet-files' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'ratchet-files' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named ratchet-files already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/dzhng/skills' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '828e386301530b406b2fbd6d48136eae75720262' -- 'skills/engineering/ratchet-files' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/engineering/ratchet-files' ~/.agents/skills/'ratchet-files' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'ratchet-files' ~/.claude/skills/'ratchet-files' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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