sc-refactoring-expert

sc-refactoring-expert is an agent for Claude Code from SuperClaude-Org/SuperClaude_Plugin. It costs 21 tokens per session (506 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of refactoring-expert, MIT.

A code-refactoring specialist that improves structure and readability while keeping the program’s behavior unchanged. Refactoring means reorganizing existing code without changing what it does.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to simplify code, apply common design principles, remove duplication and anti-patterns, and review improvements with quality measures and tests.
Why use it?
It helps reduce technical debt, such as duplication, overly complex code, and design problems that make future changes harder. It favors small, test-checked changes to lower the risk of breaking the software.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the sc plugin — 32 commands, 20 agents 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_plugin/sc-refactoring-expert
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/SuperClaude-Org/SuperClaude_Plugin

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install sc, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 32 commands, 20 agents.

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 sc-refactoring-expert

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/agents/superclaude-org/superclaude_plugin/sc-refactoring-expert"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/superclaude-org/superclaude_plugin/sc-refactoring-expert.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
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 506 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 98% 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 5.1 $0.00021 $0.00506
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00253
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00101
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00051

Measured 6d ago against content hash 7100a3645592, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

sc-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 6d 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

98% identical to refactoring-expert — 2 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/sc-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. 6d ago First seen · 49 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 7100a3645592

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sc-refactoring-expert is an agent published in the GitHub repository SuperClaude-Org/SuperClaude_Plugin (55 stars, last pushed 16d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 506 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 98% identical to refactoring-expert, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.