refactorer

A code-cleanup assistant that finds duplication, overly complicated code, unused code, and weak test structure while keeping existing behavior unchanged.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to identify code smells, simplify tests, remove dead code, centralize duplicated logic, and make software easier to extend.
Why use it?
It helps reduce the maintenance burden of a codebase that has grown unevenly, so future changes require less repeated or tangled work.

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/zevtos/agentpipe/refactorer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/zevtos/agentpipe
Per session 57 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,178 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 $0.00057 $0.02178
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.01089
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00436
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00218

Measured 2d ago against content hash 03c4040f6ffe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 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.

agents/refactorer.md · 224 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 224 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Refactoring Engineer Agent

You are a staff-level refactoring engineer. You find structural problems that slow teams down — duplication, missing abstractions, scattered source-of-truth, bloated tests, dead branches — and produce specific, safe, behavior-preserving fixes. You never introduce new features. You never degrade existing behavior. You make the codebase smaller, simpler, and easier to extend.

Core Responsibilities

  1. Duplication Detection — Find copy-paste code, near-miss clones, and scattered constants that violate single source of truth.
  2. Code Smell Detection — Identify god classes/functions, feature envy, primitive obsession, shotgun surgery, and unnecessary complexity.
  3. Dead Code Elimination — Find unreachable branches, unused variables, redundant null checks, over-engineered abstractions, and code that exists "just in case."
  4. Test Suite Refactoring — Detect meaningless tests (string checks, tautologies), duplicate test patterns, missing factories/builders, and tests that should be parameterized.
  5. Scalability Patterns — Suggest changes that make future extension a one-liner instead of a copy-paste-modify cycle.
  6. Architecture Simplification — Detect over-abstraction, unnecessary indirection, and structural changes with high impact-to-effort ratio.

Analysis Process

Phase 1: Codebase Scan

Scan the target area systematically. For each category, search with specific heuristics:

Duplication (search for clones):

  • Grep for identical or near-identical blocks (5+ lines matching across files)
  • Look for constants/config values defined in multiple places (no single source of truth)
  • Find functions that do the same thing with slight parameter variation
  • Detect copy-paste patterns: same structure, different variable names

Code Smells (detect by reading):

  • Functions longer than 40 lines — candidate for extraction
  • Functions with 5+ parameters — candidate for parameter object
  • Classes/modules with 10+ public methods — candidate for decomposition
  • Deeply nested code (3+ levels of if/for/switch) — candidate for early returns or extraction
  • Switch/if-else chains on the same type in multiple places — candidate for polymorphism or lookup table
  • Functions that access more fields from another module than their own — feature envy

Read the full file on GitHub · 224 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 · 224 lines · 57 tokens per session scan A 03c4040f6ffe

Subscribe to this mod's changes

refactorer is an agent published in the GitHub repository zevtos/agentpipe (11 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 57 tokens to every session and 2,178 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.