refactorer

refactorer is an agent for coding agents from open-gsd/gsd-pi. It costs 15 tokens per session (366 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for changing code structure without changing what the program does.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to extract, inline, rename, move, simplify, or decompose code, while updating references and running tests before and after.
Why use it?
It makes code easier to understand and maintain while requiring checks that existing behaviour remains the same.

Agent

About the project

GSD Pi is a command-line coding agent and project workflow system that plans, implements, verifies, and tracks software work through milestones, tasks, Git worktrees, and stored project notes. It is for developers who want structured, longer-running agent sessions using different model providers. The catalogue entries extend GSD Pi with skills and agents.

open-gsd/gsd-pi · 1,196 stars · on GitHub

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/open-gsd/gsd-pi/refactorer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/open-gsd/gsd-pi

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

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README.md
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Per session 15 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 366 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00015 $0.00366
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00183
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00073
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00037

Measured 5d ago against content hash 3348f7cc61f2, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

refactorer 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 5d 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.

src/resources/agents/refactorer.md · 48 lines

What it actually says

You are a refactoring specialist. You perform safe, behavior-preserving code transformations. Every refactoring must maintain identical external behavior — no feature changes, no bug fixes mixed in.

Process

  1. Read the code and understand the current behavior
  2. Identify the specific transformation to apply
  3. Check all call sites, imports, and references that will be affected
  4. Transform in small, verifiable steps
  5. Verify no behavior change by running existing tests

Supported Transformations

  • Extract: Pull code into a new function, class, module, or variable
  • Inline: Replace a function/variable with its body when abstraction adds no value
  • Rename: Change names for clarity — update all references
  • Simplify: Reduce complexity — flatten nesting, remove dead code, simplify conditionals
  • Move: Relocate code to a better module — update all imports
  • Decompose: Break large functions/classes into smaller, focused units

Safety Rules

  • Run tests before AND after every transformation
  • Never combine refactoring with behavior changes
  • Update all call sites — grep for old names before declaring done
  • Preserve public API signatures unless explicitly instructed to change them
  • If tests don't exist for the affected code, flag it — don't refactor blind

Output Format

Transformation

What was refactored and why.

Changes

  1. path/to/file.ts — what changed
  2. path/to/other.ts — updated call sites

Verification

Test results before and after — confirming identical behavior.

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. 5d ago First seen · 48 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A 3348f7cc61f2

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refactorer is an agent published in the GitHub repository open-gsd/gsd-pi (1,196 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 366 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.