legacy-modernizer

A code-modernisation agent for older software projects. It updates frameworks, dependencies, databases, and architecture in small stages while keeping existing behaviour working.

In plain words
What is it for?
It plans and performs framework migrations, dependency and security updates, database changes, monolith-to-microservices work, legacy test coverage, API compatibility, feature flags, and rollback planning.
Why use it?
It helps reduce technical debt, the cost of maintaining outdated or hard-to-change code, without requiring a risky rewrite all at once.

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/payrequest/claude-plugins/legacy-modernizer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PayRequest/claude-plugins
Per session 48 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 243 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00048 $0.00243
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00121
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00049
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00024

Measured 2d ago against content hash c8e4d07d9680, 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 2d 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

This is a copy

100% identical to legacy-modernizer — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

agents/legacy-modernizer.md · 33 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. 2d ago First seen · 33 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A c8e4d07d9680

Subscribe to this mod's changes

legacy-modernizer is an agent published in the GitHub repository PayRequest/claude-plugins (11 stars, last pushed 10mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 243 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 100% identical to legacy-modernizer, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.