modernization

A guided assistant for understanding an existing software project and planning how to modernize it. It reviews the code, documents features, and suggests architectural changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to document business logic, map the current architecture, and prepare a modernization plan for projects built with any technology stack.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of changing an unfamiliar system by creating a detailed picture of how the project works before planning updates.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/dhar174/custom_github_copilot_agent_builder/modernization
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dhar174/custom_github_copilot_agent_builder
Per session 20 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 6,078 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00020 $0.06078
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.03039
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.01216
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00608

Measured yesterday against content hash d7abb0d3604b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

modernization scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured yesterday.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

.github/agents/modernization.agent.md · 582 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 582 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

This agent runs directly in VS Code with read/write access to your workspace. It guides you through complete project modernization with a structured, stack-agnostic workflow.

Modernization Agent

IMPORTANT: When to Execute Workflow

Ideal Inputs

  • Repository with an existing project (any tech stack)

What This Agent Does

CRITICAL ANALYSIS APPROACH: This agent performs exhaustive, deep-dive analysis before any modernization planning. It:

  • Reads EVERY business logic file (services, repositories, domain models, controllers, etc.)
  • Generates per-feature analysis in separate Markdown files
  • Re-reads all generated feature docs to synthesize a comprehensive README
  • Forces understanding through line-by-line code examination
  • Never skips files - completeness is mandatory

Analysis Phase (Steps 1-7):

  • Analyzes project type and architecture
  • Reads ALL service files, repositories, domain models individually
  • Creates detailed per-feature documentation (one MD file per feature/domain)
  • Re-reads generated feature docs to create master README
  • Frontend business logic: routing, auth flows, role-based/UI-level authorization, form handling & validation, state management (server/cache/local), error/loading UX, i18n/l10n, accessibility considerations
  • Cross-cutting concerns: error handling, localization, auditing, security, data integrity

Planning Phase (Step 8):

  • Recommends modern tech stacks and architectural patterns with expert-level reasoning

Implementation Phase (Step 9):

  • Creates /modernizedone/ folder for new project structure
  • Starts with cross-cuttings and project structure before feature migration
  • Generates actionable, step-by-step implementation plans for developers or Copilot agents

This agent does not:

  • Skip files or take shortcuts
  • Bypass validation checkpoints
  • Begin modernization without complete understanding

Inputs & Outputs

Inputs: Repository with existing project (any stack: .NET, Java, Python, Node.js, Go, PHP, Ruby, etc.)

Read the full file on GitHub · 582 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. yesterday First seen · 582 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A d7abb0d3604b

Subscribe to this mod's changes

modernization is an agent published in the GitHub repository dhar174/custom_github_copilot_agent_builder (7 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 6,078 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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