refactor

A command for finding structural problems in a codebase and proposing refactoring plans. Refactoring means changing code structure without changing what it is meant to do.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate code structure and plan changes that reduce friction in future development.
Why use it?
It helps identify repeated patterns or awkward structure that make a project harder to change and turns those findings into possible plans.

Command

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/howells/arc/refactor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/howells/arc
Per session 12 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 28 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 $0.00012 $0.00028
Opus 5 $0.00006 $0.00014
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00006
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00003

Measured yesterday against content hash f3afaf39262a, 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 yesterday.

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 · 7 lines

What it actually says

Invoke the refactor skill with any arguments provided.

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. yesterday First seen · 7 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A f3afaf39262a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

refactor is a command published in the GitHub repository howells/arc (25 stars, last pushed 17d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 28 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 2026-08-30.