File Summarization

jamie-bitflight/file-summarization

Summarize files by reading content, extracting key passages, and applying type-specific strategies. Activates on summarize this file, what's in this file, describe this codebase, file summary, analyze this file, tl;dr this file, what does this code do, explain this config, break down this script. Routes to strategies for code, config, data, documentation, markup, and binary files based on extension and word count.

3k tokens

context cost

the whole folder, loaded on every use

files

instructions only

copies elsewhere

how many repositories repackaged it

stars on the repo

on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/Jamie-BitFlight/claude_skills --skill file-summarization

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take jamie-bitflight/file-summarization from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.