refactor

refactor is a command for Claude Code from caiaffa/claude-code-ultimate-engineering-system. It costs 16 tokens per session (296 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided command for changing existing code safely in small, reviewable steps. It first records current behaviour, plans the refactor, challenges the plan, runs tests after each change, and reviews the final result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to restructure code without intentionally changing what it does, add tests that capture current behaviour, and produce one commit per safe step with test evidence.
Why use it?
Refactoring can accidentally change behaviour, including behaviour used by hidden callers or other services. This process makes those risks visible and keeps each change independently shippable.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: $ARGUMENTS substitution.

Good fit Use it to restructure code without intentionally changing what it does, add tests that capture current behaviour, and produce one commit per safe step with test evidence.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/caiaffa/claude-code-ultimate-engineering-system/refactor
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/caiaffa/claude-code-ultimate-engineering-system

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 16 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 296 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 $0.00016 $0.00296
Opus 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00118
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00059
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00030

Measured 1mo ago against content hash c0684990ee83, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

refactor 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 1mo 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/commands/refactor.md · 31 lines

What it actually says

Target: $ARGUMENTS

Phase 1 — Characterize & plan (sequential)

backend-platform-engineer (safe-refactoring + test-strategy skills): current problems, behavior that must NOT change, characterization tests to write first, and a step plan where every step is independently mergeable. No structural changes yet.

Phase 2 — Challenge (sequential, decision gate)

architecture-challenger: attack the plan — accidental behavior change, hidden callers (reflection, config, other services), error-semantics drift, lost observability, steps that cannot ship incrementally. Critical findings → revise the plan.

Phase 3 — Execute (sequential)

backend-platform-engineer: one step at a time — green suite → change → green suite. One commit per step (refactor(scope): ...). Never mix a behavior change into a refactor commit; if one is needed, stop and report.

Phase 4 — Review (parallel)

  • backend-platform-engineer (fresh instance, code-review skill) on the full diff
  • security-engineer — only if auth, data access, or contracts were touched

Output

Steps executed with test output per step, preserved-behavior evidence, remaining risks, and whether a release plan (/release) is needed.

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. 1mo ago First seen · 31 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A c0684990ee83

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refactor is a command published in the GitHub repository caiaffa/claude-code-ultimate-engineering-system (17 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 296 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-15.