refactor

refactor is a command for Claude Code from cameronfreer/lean4-skills. It costs 14 tokens per session (1,350 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A Lean 4 command that reorganizes proofs around clearer strategies, existing mathlib results, and reusable helper lemmas. mathlib is Lean's large library of formalized mathematics.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it on all proofs in a file, one proof, or files changed since the last commit. It can search mathlib and preview opportunities before editing.
Why use it?
It helps replace complicated proof approaches with simpler ones and can reduce repeated work by extracting helpers, while leaving theorem statements unchanged.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the lean4 plugin — 1 skill, 12 commands, 4 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it on all proofs in a file, one proof, or files changed since the last commit. It can search mathlib and preview opportunities before editing.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/cameronfreer/lean4-skills/refactor
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/cameronfreer/lean4-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install lean4, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 1 skill, 12 commands, 4 agents, 3 hooks.

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Per session 14 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,350 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 $0.00014 $0.01350
Opus 5.5 $0.00006 $0.00540
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00270
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00135

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 13e6753636a8, 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • refactor — 98% identical, 5 lines differ
plugins/lean4/commands/refactor.md · 99 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 99 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Lean4 Refactor

Strategy-level proof simplification: find better proof approaches, leverage mathlib, and extract reusable helpers. Complements /lean4:golf (tactic-level optimization) and /lean4:review (read-only audit).

Mutating command: Edits files with user approval. Does not change theorem statements, introduce axioms, or create commits.

Escalation target for /lean4:golf. Golf performs local, statement-preserving proof cleanup, potentially across many proofs; when a golf replacement needs a multi-file or strategy-level change — extracting a helper, moving declarations between files, switching the proof approach — golf hands off here. Axiom/assumption hygiene goes to the axiom-eliminator agent instead; a needed statement change is reported to you rather than applied by either.

Usage

/lean4:refactor File.lean                  # Refactor all proofs in file
/lean4:refactor File.lean:149              # Refactor proof at line 149
/lean4:refactor --scope=changed            # Refactor files modified since last commit
/lean4:refactor --scope=changed --dry-run  # Report opportunities without editing

Inputs

Arg Required Description
target No File or File.lean:line
--scope No file (default with target), changed (default without target)
--dry-run No Report only, do not edit
--search No quick (default) or full (exhaustive mathlib search)
--extract-helpers No on (default) or off (skip helper extraction)

Scope Behavior

Input Scope
File.lean All proofs in file
File.lean:149 Single proof containing line 149
No target --scope=changed (files modified since last commit)
--scope=changed Files modified since last commit

Line target: Identifies the enclosing theorem/lemma/def containing the given line and refactors that proof only.

Large-run confirmation: When --scope=changed touches >5 files or >20 opportunities, confirm before proceeding.

Read the full file on GitHub · 99 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. 1mo ago Changed · +2 lines 13e6753636a8
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 97 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A 899abf463ba5

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refactor is a command published in the GitHub repository cameronfreer/lean4-skills (465 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 1,350 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 2026-08-30.