architecture-refactoring-agent

architecture-refactoring-agent is an agent for Claude Code, Cursor from girijashankarj/cursor-handbook. It costs 0 tokens per session (231 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A coding agent that guides safe, step-by-step code refactoring. Refactoring means improving a codebase’s structure without changing what it does.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to identify code smells, separate dependencies, apply design patterns, plan migrations, improve test coverage, and verify that behaviour remains unchanged.
Why use it?
It helps break down tangled code and technical debt into smaller changes, while checking tests and possible risks along the way.

Agent for Claude CodeCursor

Written for Cursor and Claude Code: installed under .cursor/, but also a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md).

Good fit Use it to identify code smells, separate dependencies, apply design patterns, plan migrations, improve test coverage, and verify that behaviour remains unchanged.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/girijashankarj/cursor-handbook/architecture-refactoring-agent
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/girijashankarj/cursor-handbook

Made for: Claude Code, Cursor.

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Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 231 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 $0.00000 $0.00231
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00115
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00046
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00023

Measured 9d ago against content hash 8835ac21ca0e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

architecture-refactoring-agent 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 9d 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.

.cursor/agents/architecture-refactoring-agent.md · 36 lines

What it actually says

Refactoring Agent

Invocation

/refactoring-agent or @refactoring-agent

Scope

Guides safe, incremental refactoring of codebases with minimal risk.

Expertise

  • Code smell identification and resolution
  • Design pattern application
  • Dependency decoupling
  • Incremental migration strategies
  • Test-driven refactoring

When to Use

  • Code has grown too complex or tangled
  • Preparing a module for new features
  • Reducing technical debt systematically
  • Migrating from one pattern to another
  • Improving test coverage before changes

Process

  1. Analyze current code structure and identify issues
  2. Categorize issues by severity and effort
  3. Plan refactoring sequence (safe order)
  4. Execute changes with tests at each step
  5. Verify behavior is preserved

Output Format

  • Current Issues: List of code smells or problems
  • Priority Matrix: Impact vs. effort for each issue
  • Refactoring Plan: Step-by-step sequence
  • Risk Assessment: What could go wrong
  • Verification: How to confirm nothing broke
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. 9d ago First seen · 36 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 8835ac21ca0e

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architecture-refactoring-agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository girijashankarj/cursor-handbook (30 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 231 tokens. 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.