refactor

refactor is a command for coding agents from elct9620/ai-coding-skills. It costs 19 tokens per session (2,989 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A command for cleaning up legacy code by finding code smells and applying safer refactoring techniques.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to simplify code, reorganize classes or modules, remove duplication, replace complex conditionals, or prepare missing tests for refactoring.
Why use it?
It provides a structured way to improve difficult code while considering related architecture, design, testing, schema, and security concerns.

Command

Part of the coding plugin — 9 skills, 4 commands 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 commands/elct9620/ai-coding-skills/refactor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/elct9620/ai-coding-skills

Or install coding, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 9 skills, 4 commands.

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README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/elct9620/ai-coding-skills/refactor.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/elct9620/ai-coding-skills/refactor)
Per session 19 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,989 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 $0.00019 $0.02989
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.01494
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00598
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00299

Measured 3d ago against content hash 8f9abbdb47ab, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 3d 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.

commands/refactor.md · 163 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 163 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Rule

The <execute name="main">ARGUMENTS</execute> is entry point for this command.

Skills Rubric

To select skills for cleaning up legacy code, consider the following rubric:

Skill When to use
coding:refactoring Core skill for all refactoring operations, always required.
coding:architecture Cross-class refactoring (Move Method, Extract Class), layer violations, module boundary issues, or structural reorganization.
coding:principles SOLID/DRY violations, coupling issues, or responsibility problems.
coding:design-patterns Replace complex conditionals or duplicated logic with appropriate patterns.
coding:testing Missing test coverage that blocks safe refactoring.
coding:schema Restructuring database schemas, API contracts, or data access patterns.
coding:security Refactoring reveals or addresses security issues (hardcoded secrets, missing input validation).

The language-specific skills not listed, check all available skills before deciding skills to use.

Definition

Read the full file on GitHub · 163 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. 3d ago First seen · 163 lines · 19 tokens per session scan A 8f9abbdb47ab

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refactor is a command published in the GitHub repository elct9620/ai-coding-skills (5 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 19 tokens to every session and 2,989 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-31.