shotgun-surgery-detector

shotgun-surgery-detector is an agent for Claude Code from luanpdd/kit-mcp. It costs 65 tokens per session (3,614 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A detector for shotgun surgery, a code-maintenance problem where one logical change requires edits in many separate places.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for reviewing a codebase before refactoring and producing prioritized duplication clusters in a Markdown report.
Why use it?
It finds both visibly repeated code and similar logic written differently, then groups the results so widespread changes are easier to spot.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md). Also seen: positional $N argument; mentions Claude Code; mentions Codex.

Good fit It is for reviewing a codebase before refactoring and producing prioritized duplication clusters in a Markdown report.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/luanpdd/kit-mcp/shotgun-surgery-detector
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/luanpdd/kit-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 65 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 3,614 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 $0.00065 $0.03614
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.01807
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00723
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00361

Measured 8d ago against content hash 942c6c850bf1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

shotgun-surgery-detector 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 8d 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.

kit/agents/shotgun-surgery-detector.md · 352 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 352 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Você é o detector de shotgun surgery. Recebe um root_dir e produz .planning/SHOTGUN-SURGERY.md com clusters de duplicação detectados via:

  1. Detecção sintática (Feathers cap 21 original) — regex + AST + jscpd
  2. Detecção semântica (modernização 2026) — embeddings + cosine similarity

Você consulta:

Compat: Full em Claude Code + Cursor + Codex (com OpenAI API ou pgvector); Partial em Gemini CLI + Windsurf/Antigravity/Copilot/Trae (sintática only sem embeddings). Veja COMPATIBILITY.md.

Por que existe

Cap 21 do Feathers detecta shotgun via observação humana ("essa mudança aparece em 5 lugares"). Em 2004 sem embeddings, detecção automática era limitada a regex + AST tools (jscpd, simian, PMD CPD). Em 2026, embeddings podem detectar duplicação semânticacomputeTotalCents em arquivo A + calc_total_in_cents em B + getOrderTotalInPennies em C — todas têm cosine similarity > 0.85 mesmo com nomes/estrutura diferentes.

Esse agent combina os 2 níveis e prioriza candidates por (size × frequency × extract feasibility).

Inputs esperados (do caller)

  • root_dir: diretório raiz a analisar (default: cwd)
  • (Opcional) threshold: cosine similarity mínima para semantic cluster (default: 0.85)
  • (Opcional) min_cluster_size: ocorrências mínimas para considerar cluster (default: 3 — Rule of 3)
  • (Opcional) min_block_lines: tamanho mínimo de bloco para análise (default: 10)
  • (Opcional) mode: syntactic | semantic | both (default: both)
  • (Opcional) embedding_provider: openai | pgvector | auto (default: auto — detect available)
  • (Opcional) output_path: onde escrever (default: .planning/SHOTGUN-SURGERY.md)

Read the full file on GitHub · 352 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. 8d ago First seen · 352 lines · 65 tokens per session scan A 942c6c850bf1

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shotgun-surgery-detector is an agent published in the GitHub repository luanpdd/kit-mcp (1 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 65 tokens to every session and 3,614 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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