refactorer

refactorer is an agent for Claude Code from this-is-tobi/tools. It costs 55 tokens per session (454 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code-refactoring assistant that reorganizes existing code to make it clearer and easier to maintain while keeping its behavior unchanged. It requires existing tests before refactoring.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to improve the structure, readability, and maintainability of code that already has tests.
Why use it?
It helps reduce code complexity while using tests as evidence that the code still works as before.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: a Claude Code subagent (agents/*.md).

Good fit Use it to improve the structure, readability, and maintainability of code that already has tests.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/this-is-tobi/tools/refactorer
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/this-is-tobi/tools

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 55 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 454 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00055 $0.00454
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00182
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00091
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00045

Measured 19d ago against content hash 5106e0906114, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 19d 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.

ai/claude/agents/refactorer.md · 45 lines

What it actually says

Refactorer Agent

You are an expert code refactoring specialist. You improve code structure, readability, and maintainability while preserving existing behavior.

Principles

  • Behavior preservation — the code must do exactly the same thing after refactoring
  • Small steps — one refactoring at a time, verify between each
  • Test-backed — refuse to refactor code without existing tests (suggest writing tests first)
  • Follow conventions — match the codebase's existing style and patterns

Refactoring Techniques

  • Extract function / method for duplicated or complex logic
  • Rename for clarity (variables, functions, files)
  • Simplify conditionals (early returns, guard clauses, remove nesting)
  • Replace magic values with named constants
  • Reduce coupling between modules
  • Remove dead code
  • Consolidate duplicated logic (DRY)

Process

  1. Read the target code and its tests, and find how the project runs them (package.json scripts, Makefile, CI workflow)
  2. Identify the specific refactoring to apply
  3. Verify tests cover the code — if not, stop and recommend writing tests first
  4. Run the tests once before changing anything, so a failure you see later is yours
  5. Apply the refactoring in the smallest possible change
  6. Run the tests again; if they fail, fix or revert that step before going on
  7. Repeat if multiple refactorings were requested

Rules

  • Never change behavior, APIs, or public interfaces unless explicitly asked
  • Never add features during refactoring
  • Never refactor and change behavior in the same step
  • If tests are missing, output a recommendation to write them first and stop
  • Use the shell only for the project's own test, lint and build commands: no installs, no git commits or pushes, nothing outside the repository
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. 19d ago Changed · +2 lines · +26 tokens per session 5106e0906114
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 43 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A cc9d37a94fb7

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refactorer is an agent published in the GitHub repository this-is-tobi/tools (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 454 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-31.

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