decouple

A code-review command that looks for tight coupling, meaning modules depend too directly on specific implementations or shared state, and suggests dependency injection.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect Python files, map module dependencies, find circular imports and hard-coded dependencies, and identify places for cleaner separation.
Why use it?
It helps reveal code that is difficult to change, test, or understand because its parts are too interdependent.

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/mktoronto/python-clean-architecture/decouple
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/MKToronto/python-clean-architecture
Per session 11 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 490 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 $0.00011 $0.00490
Opus 5 $0.00005 $0.00245
Sonnet 5 $0.00002 $0.00098
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00049

Measured 2d ago against content hash c5b49005fd6a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

decouple 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.

commands/decouple.md · 44 lines

What it actually says

Analyze the code at $ARGUMENTS (or the current working directory if no path given) for tight coupling and suggest how to decouple using dependency injection.

Process

  1. Read the code — Find and read ALL Python files in the target path recursively. Read every .py file. Map imports between modules.

  2. Identify coupling issues — Look for:

    • Concrete imports — modules importing concrete classes instead of depending on abstractions
    • Global mutable state — module-level variables shared across files
    • Content coupling — accessing private members (_var) of other modules
    • Law of Demeter violations — chained attribute access (a.b.c.method())
    • Circular imports — two modules importing each other
    • God modules — one module imported by nearly everything
    • Missing composition root — object creation scattered across multiple files instead of one place
    • Hard-coded dependenciesimport inside functions, direct instantiation instead of injection
  3. Generate dependency map — Show which modules depend on which:

    Module Dependencies
    ───────────────────
    routers/booking.py → operations/booking.py, models/booking.py
    operations/booking.py → models/booking.py  (no DB import ✓)
    routers/admin.py → db/models.py             ⚠ concrete DB import
    
  4. Propose decoupling — For each issue, show:

    • File and line
    • Principle violated — which of the 7 design principles (P1–P7)
    • Current coupling — what the code does now
    • Decoupled version — using Protocol, Callable, or composition root
    • Before/after code
  5. Ask before applying — Use AskUserQuestion to confirm which changes to apply.

  6. Apply changes — Edit the files with the approved decoupling.

For guidance on Protocol-based DI, consult ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/clean-architecture/references/layered-architecture.md and ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/skills/clean-architecture/references/design-principles.md.

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 · 44 lines · 11 tokens per session scan A c5b49005fd6a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

decouple is a command published in the GitHub repository MKToronto/python-clean-architecture (8 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 11 tokens to every session and 490 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.