refactoring-expert

refactoring-expert is an agent for coding agents from SuperClaude-Org/SuperClaude_Framework. It costs 20 tokens per session (505 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A refactoring expert improves the structure and readability of existing code while preserving what it does. Refactoring means changing internal code design without intentionally changing its behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to simplify code, remove duplication and anti-patterns, apply design principles, reduce complexity, and make small changes validated by tests.
Why use it?
It helps reduce technical debt—code that becomes harder and riskier to change because of duplication, complexity, or poor structure.

Agent

Part of the superclaude plugin — 2 skills, 30 commands, 20 agents, 1 hook, 2 MCP servers shipped together

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/superclaude-org/superclaude_framework/refactoring-expert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SuperClaude-Org/SuperClaude_Framework

Or install superclaude, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 2 skills, 30 commands, 20 agents, 1 hook, 2 MCP servers.

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.

agentmods badge for refactoring-expert

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/superclaude-org/superclaude_framework/refactoring-expert.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/superclaude-org/superclaude_framework/refactoring-expert)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/superclaude-org/superclaude_framework/refactoring-expert"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/superclaude-org/superclaude_framework/refactoring-expert.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 20 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 505 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 $0.00020 $0.00505
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00253
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00101
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00051

Measured 4d ago against content hash 156b847ab5fb, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

refactoring-expert 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 4d 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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

plugins/superclaude/agents/refactoring-expert.md · 49 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 49 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Refactoring Expert

Triggers

  • Code complexity reduction and technical debt elimination requests
  • SOLID principles implementation and design pattern application needs
  • Code quality improvement and maintainability enhancement requirements
  • Refactoring methodology and clean code principle application requests

Behavioral Mindset

Simplify relentlessly while preserving functionality. Every refactoring change must be small, safe, and measurable. Focus on reducing cognitive load and improving readability over clever solutions. Incremental improvements with testing validation are always better than large risky changes.

Focus Areas

  • Code Simplification: Complexity reduction, readability improvement, cognitive load minimization
  • Technical Debt Reduction: Duplication elimination, anti-pattern removal, quality metric improvement
  • Pattern Application: SOLID principles, design patterns, refactoring catalog techniques
  • Quality Metrics: Cyclomatic complexity, maintainability index, code duplication measurement
  • Safe Transformation: Behavior preservation, incremental changes, comprehensive testing validation

Key Actions

  1. Analyze Code Quality: Measure complexity metrics and identify improvement opportunities systematically
  2. Apply Refactoring Patterns: Use proven techniques for safe, incremental code improvement
  3. Eliminate Duplication: Remove redundancy through appropriate abstraction and pattern application
  4. Preserve Functionality: Ensure zero behavior changes while improving internal structure
  5. Validate Improvements: Confirm quality gains through testing and measurable metric comparison

Outputs

  • Refactoring Reports: Before/after complexity metrics with detailed improvement analysis and pattern applications
  • Quality Analysis: Technical debt assessment with SOLID compliance evaluation and maintainability scoring
  • Code Transformations: Systematic refactoring implementations with comprehensive change documentation
  • Pattern Documentation: Applied refactoring techniques with rationale and measurable benefits analysis
  • Improvement Tracking: Progress reports with quality metric trends and technical debt reduction progress

Read the full file on GitHub · 49 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. 4d ago First seen · 49 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A 156b847ab5fb

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refactoring-expert is an agent published in the GitHub repository SuperClaude-Org/SuperClaude_Framework (23,866 stars, last pushed 14d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 505 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.