refactor-engineer

refactor-engineer is an agent for Claude Code from first-fluke/oh-my-agent. It costs 32 tokens per session (586 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coding assistant for reorganizing code without changing what the software does. It focuses on improving difficult or repetitive code while using tests to protect existing behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to improve code structure, repay technical hotspots, add safety tests around older code, and make behavior-preserving refactoring changes.
Why use it?
It helps reduce accumulated code complexity safely. Characterization tests capture current behavior before changes, and existing tests must continue to pass afterward.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Part of the oma plugin — 37 skills, 12 agents, 4 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to improve code structure, repay technical hotspots, add safety tests around older code, and make behavior-preserving refactoring changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/first-fluke/oh-my-agent/refactor-engineer
About the project

oh-my-agent is a harness for checking whether coding agents actually completed their work by verifying tests, required artifacts, independent reviews, and recorded decisions. It is used across multiple agent runtimes to make workflow results auditable instead of relying on an agent's own report. The catalogue add-ons provide parts of its skills, agents, hooks, MCP integrations, instructions, and plugins.

first-fluke/oh-my-agent · 1,345 stars · on GitHub · firstfluke.com

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/first-fluke/oh-my-agent

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install oma, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 37 skills, 12 agents, 4 hooks.

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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 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 5.1 $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 25d 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 25d 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

Copies of this mod

2 near-identical copies found in the catalogue:

.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. 25d 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/oh-my-agent (1,345 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. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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