What is aid-refactor?

A code-restructuring tool for changing how code is organised or improving its performance while keeping its behaviour the same.

Use it for renaming, restructuring, and performance-improvement work.

It helps turn a known refactoring goal into specified, reviewable tasks before any code is changed.

aid-refactor — Skill for Claude Code by AndreVianna/aid-methodology

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.

Any agent

npx skills add AndreVianna/aid-methodology --skill aid-refactor

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/AndreVianna/aid-methodology

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 84 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 374 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 81% copy Near-identical to another mod 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00084	$0.00374
Opus 5.5	$0.00034	$0.00150
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00017	$0.00075
Haiku 4.5	$0.00008	$0.00037

Measured 26d ago against content hash d2ddcd66fb81, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

aid-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 26d 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

This is a copy

81% identical to aid-create-api — 18 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

.agents/skills/aid-refactor/SKILL.md · 18 lines

What it actually says

Shortcut: refactor

Bind VERB=refactor, ARTIFACT="" (bare verb), then run the shared engine at .aid/runtime/templates/shortcut-engine.md. The engine scaffolds the flattened Lite work (feature-001 structure) and authors exactly two documents: REQUIREMENTS.md, whose § 11 feature section carries the technical specification and whose § 9 carries the gate criteria, and the task DETAIL.md files -- with reduced capture. One feature and one delivery means there is nothing to sequence, so no plan is written and the execution graph is derived from each task's **Depends on:** field. It runs the per-document Grading Gates (feature-004) and halts at the FR-10 approval gate. It never executes. This shortcut's default_type/group are its row in .aid/runtime/templates/shortcut-catalog.yml.

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.

26d ago Changed d2ddcd66fb81
2mo ago First seen · 18 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A bd1e1622a52e

Subscribe to this mod's changes

aid-refactor is a skill published in the GitHub repository AndreVianna/aid-methodology (6 stars, last pushed 11d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 374 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 81% identical to aid-create-api, differing in 18 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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