refactoring-skill

refactoring-skill is a cursor rule for Codex from KaelSensei/MagicAIBuilder. It costs 119 tokens per session, scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of rules for refactoring, which means improving a program’s internal structure without changing what it does. It covers extracting functions, renaming variables, removing duplication, and simplifying conditions.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when reorganizing existing code, simplifying logic, removing repeated code, and deciding whether tests or clear reasoning provide enough confidence to proceed.
Why use it?
It keeps cleanup work safe, small, testable, and separate from new features or bug fixes.

Cursor rule for Codex

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 rules/kaelsensei/magicaibuilder/refactoring-skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/KaelSensei/MagicAIBuilder

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 119 This file is loaded in full into every session.
When invoked 119 The same file — it is already loaded in full.
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 $0.00119 $0.00119
Opus 5 $0.00060 $0.00060
Sonnet 5 $0.00024 $0.00024
Haiku 4.5 $0.00012 $0.00012

Measured 4d ago against content hash a8c86e89f6cd, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

refactoring-skill 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 4d 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.

.agents/rules/refactoring-skill.mdc · 35 lines

What it actually says

Refactoring Skill

Based on Martin Fowler (Refactoring)

Principles

  • Refactoring must not change behavior
  • Work in small steps
  • Keep code always functional

Techniques

  • Extract function
  • Rename variables
  • Remove duplication
  • Simplify conditionals

Safety

  • Only refactor with confidence (tests or clear reasoning)
  • If unsure, stop and ask

Cursor Behavior

  • Never mix refactor with feature/fix
  • Keep changes small and reviewable

Sources

  • Refactoring – Martin Fowler
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. 4d ago First seen · 35 lines · 119 tokens per session scan A a8c86e89f6cd

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refactoring-skill is a cursor rule published in the GitHub repository KaelSensei/MagicAIBuilder (2 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 119 tokens to every session, about $0.0006 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.