Auditing my own scripts drawer

Every developer has a ~/dev/tools/scripts folder. Mine has run for years without an index. I asked Claude Code to read every file in it and write one. The brief was simple: read the whole directory, then produce an INDEX.md with three columns — tool, how to run it, what it does. It scanned roughly 40 files: Python CLIs built on uv, shell wrappers, one-off Snowflake key-rotation scripts, a tmux session launcher, a Hacker News summarizer. Some had docstrings. Several had none, and their purpose was recoverable only by reading the argparse block or the hardcoded constants at the top. ...

September 3, 2026 · 3 min