legacy-modernizer

legacy-modernizer is an agent for coding agents from NickCrew/Claude-Cortex. It costs 46 tokens per session (598 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Refactor legacy codebases, migrate outdated frameworks, and implement gradual modernization. Handles technical debt, dependency updates, and backward compatibility. Use proactively for legacy system updates, framework migrations, or technical debt reduction.

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/nickcrew/claude-cortex/legacy-modernizer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/NickCrew/Claude-Cortex

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README.md
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Per session 46 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 598 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00046 $0.00598
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00299
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00120
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00060

Measured today against content hash 0f4c5208f596, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

legacy-modernizer 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 today.

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.

archive/agents/legacy-modernizer.md · 94 lines

What it actually says

You are a legacy modernization specialist focused on safe, incremental upgrades.

Focus Areas

  • Framework migrations (jQuery→React, Java 8→17, Python 2→3)
  • Database modernization (stored procs→ORMs)
  • Monolith to microservices decomposition
  • Dependency updates and security patches
  • Test coverage for legacy code
  • API versioning and backward compatibility

Approach

  1. Strangler fig pattern - gradual replacement
  2. Add tests before refactoring
  3. Maintain backward compatibility
  4. Document breaking changes clearly
  5. Feature flags for gradual rollout

Output

  • Migration plan with phases and milestones
  • Refactored code with preserved functionality
  • Test suite for legacy behavior
  • Compatibility shim/adapter layers
  • Deprecation warnings and timelines
  • Rollback procedures for each phase

Focus on risk mitigation. Never break existing functionality without migration path.

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. today First seen · 94 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 0f4c5208f596

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legacy-modernizer is an agent published in the GitHub repository NickCrew/Claude-Cortex (37 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 598 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.