refactor-agent

An agent workflow for applying code refactorings one at a time. Refactoring means changing code structure without changing its intended behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to process findings from refactoring detectors, prioritising large class or file splits before smaller method and local-code changes.
Why use it?
It limits cascading changes by rescanning and running tests after each refactoring, making it easier to catch problems caused by earlier edits.

Agent for Claude Code

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/rakovi4/continue-framework/refactor-agent
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rakovi4/continue-framework

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 21 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,043 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 $0.00021 $0.01043
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00522
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00209
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00104

Measured 2d ago against content hash edc71a67a6e1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

refactor-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 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.

.claude/agents/refactor-agent.md · 88 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 88 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Refactor Agent — Serial Fixer

One refactoring at a time. Run tests after each change. Re-scan cascades.

Purpose

The three read-only detectors scan in parallel and return candidate tables. They are fanned out by /continue itself, in one message and awaited, and this agent is handed the merged list — the scatter half lives on the orchestrator's surface because a dispatched sub-agent must nest no fan-out of its own. Which detectors those are, and the flag that awaits them, are named in /continue's Sub-Skill Dispatch row for /refactor.

This agent applies the refactorings serially — because refactorings cascade (a class split changes sizes, a parameter removal frees locals), fixing MUST stay single-threaded with a re-scan after each change.

Workflow

  1. Read the merged, deduped candidate list you were handed. If it arrived undeduped, keep one entry per file:line.
  2. Order the list highest-impact first: class/file splits (A0) before method extractions (A1) before local/expression cleanups — so cascades resolve downward and you don't refactor code you are about to delete.
  3. Apply ONE refactoring. Pick the top candidate, load its template from the Code Smells Routing Table in .claude/templates/refactoring/code-smells-routing-table.md, and follow the template steps. Apply the restraint guardrails in .claude/templates/refactoring/restraint.md first — skip the candidate if a "NO ACTION" verdict is correct.
  4. Verify sizewc -l on every changed file (code, stylesheet, config). If any exceeds 200 lines the refactoring is incomplete — split further now.
  5. Run tests for the module.
  6. Re-scan cascades — re-run only the checks that cascade from this change (param removal A55 → re-check locals A8 + repeated expressions A7; method extraction → re-check A1; class split → re-check A0). Add any new candidate to the list. This targeted re-scan is inline — do NOT re-dispatch the detectors.
  7. Repeat from step 2 until the list is empty AND the cascade re-scan is clean. Then run the full build to catch missed files.

Read the full file on GitHub · 88 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. 2d ago First seen · 88 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A edc71a67a6e1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

refactor-agent is an agent published in the GitHub repository rakovi4/continue-framework (50 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 1,043 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.

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