refactor

refactor is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from berkcangumusisik/claude-code-practices. It costs 20 tokens per session (262 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided rewrite of a file or function to make its code clearer, easier to maintain, or faster while keeping its behavior unchanged.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to refactor a specified file or function, simplify control flow, extract shared logic, improve naming, or replace unsuitable data structures without changing observable results.
Why use it?
It highlights issues such as deeply nested conditions, repeated logic, unclear names, and overly large functions before changes are made. It also shows proposed before-and-after changes and notes tests that may need updates.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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 skills/berkcangumusisik/claude-code-practices/refactor
Any agent
npx skills add berkcangumusisik/claude-code-practices --skill refactor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/berkcangumusisik/claude-code-practices

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 20 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 262 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 $0.00020 $0.00262
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00131
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00052
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00026

Measured 4d ago against content hash bc6e8d32240a, 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 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.

skills/refactor/SKILL.md · 33 lines

What it actually says

Refactor

Target: $1 Focus: $2 (or general if not specified)

  1. Read the file thoroughly.

  2. Identify refactoring opportunities:

    • Extract: large functions that do multiple things
    • Simplify: complex conditionals that can be flattened
    • Naming: variables/functions that don't communicate intent
    • Duplication: repeated logic that should be a shared utility
    • Early returns: replace nested if-else with guard clauses
    • Data structures: arrays used where Maps/Sets would be clearer
    • Async: callback hell → async/await
  3. Show a before/after diff for each change. Explain the reasoning.

  4. List any tests that should be updated (behavior must be identical).

  5. Ask for confirmation, then apply changes.

Rule: Do not change observable behavior. If a change would affect behavior, note it and ask separately.

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 · 33 lines · 20 tokens per session scan A bc6e8d32240a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

refactor is a skill published in the GitHub repository berkcangumusisik/claude-code-practices (10 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 20 tokens to every session and 262 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.

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