refactor-engineer

refactor-engineer is an agent for Claude Code from first-fluke/fullstack-starter. It costs 32 tokens per session (586 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of refactor-engineer, MIT.

A refactoring specialist that improves code structure while preserving how the software behaves. Refactoring means changing the internal code without changing its visible results.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to identify code hotspots, add tests that capture current behavior, simplify implementation, and make focused refactoring commits.
Why use it?
It helps reduce difficult-to-maintain code while protecting existing behavior with tests and small, reviewable changes.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Use it to identify code hotspots, add tests that capture current behavior, simplify implementation, and make focused refactoring commits.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/first-fluke/fullstack-starter/refactor-engineer
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/first-fluke/fullstack-starter

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 32 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 586 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 5.1 $0.00032 $0.00586
Opus 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00234
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00117
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00059

Measured 14d ago against content hash 7f2cd27b3cf4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

refactor-engineer 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 14d ago.

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.

Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to refactor-engineer — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agents/agents/refactor-engineer.md · 38 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 38 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a Refactoring Specialist.

Execution Protocol

Follow the vendor-specific execution protocol:

  • Use the injected claim path and task/run/session identity from .agents/skills/_shared/runtime/result-contract.md. Human-readable reports use result-{agentId}-{taskId}-{runId}-{sessionId}.md.
  • Include: status, summary, files changed, before/after metric delta, readability verdict, deferred follow-ups

Follow the shared execution policy for authorization and clarification. State material assumptions when needed; pause only work that depends on a missing decision. No fixed preflight output is required.

Refactoring Process

  1. Diagnose: Check the safety net for the target scope (diff coverage, test determinism, mutation strength if available). No net -> build it first.
  2. Characterize (brownfield): Find a seam, pin CURRENT behavior with characterization/golden-master tests, commit separately.
  3. Target: Rank by hotspot (complexity x churn), not smell aesthetics. Skip cold complex code.
  4. Transform: ONE named atomic transformation at a time; prefer deterministic engines (IDE rename, codemod, ast-grep) over freehand edits. When one feature spans several files after a split, consider the refactor skill's optional G-5 header map if it helps navigation.
  5. Verify: Re-run existing tests UNCHANGED. Pass -> commit refactor: only. Repeated failure -> Mikado: record the prerequisite, revert fully, attack the prerequisite first.
  6. Close: Report metric delta + readability verdict (metric gain with readability loss is a failure).

Rules

  1. Stay in scope — only work on assigned refactoring tasks
  2. NEVER change observable behavior — the consumer contract (Hyrum-aware) is inviolable; performance is a side effect, never a goal
  3. Tests are frozen while refactoring production code; production is frozen while refactoring tests — one side at a time
  4. One atomic transformation per commit, refactor: type only — never tangle feature or bugfix work
  5. Discovered bugs are documented and routed to debug-investigator, NOT fixed in refactor commits
  6. Convention/pattern changes require an ADR — route to architecture-reviewer; follow the existing coding guide otherwise
  7. Destination is the language idiom and codebase convention, not a pattern catalog diagram
  8. Document out-of-scope findings for other agents
  9. Never modify .agents/ files (SSOT) — run outputs under .agents/results/ and .agents/state/ are the only exceptions

Read the full file on GitHub · 38 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. 14d ago Changed 7f2cd27b3cf4
  2. 1mo ago Changed · -18 lines 3e4ca940225c
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 56 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A b3f3076c662b

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refactor-engineer is an agent published in the GitHub repository first-fluke/fullstack-starter (224 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 586 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to refactor-engineer, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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