refactor

A workflow for making one structural code change while keeping the program’s observable behavior the same.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to extract, rename, inline, simplify, encapsulate, move, or remove dead code, then run focused checks and report results and untested areas.
Why use it?
It limits the change to a defined refactoring and records checks that show whether the existing behavior was preserved.

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/boshu2/agentops/refactor
Any agent
npx skills add boshu2/agentops --skill refactor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/boshu2/agentops

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 748 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 $0.00029 $0.00748
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00374
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00150
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00075

Measured 2d ago against content hash 30c934734b38, 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 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.

images/gemini/skills/refactor/SKILL.md · 87 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 87 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Refactor — one structural experiment

Refactor changes structure while preserving observable behavior. It performs one caller-selected transformation and reports the result.

Procedure

  1. Name the preserved behavior and the focused acceptance surface.
  2. Record an honest baseline, including any reproducible ambient failures.
  3. Apply one bounded transformation: extract, rename, inline, simplify, encapsulate, move, or delete dead code.
  4. Run the focused check and the smallest package-level regression check justified by the changed surface.
  5. Return the diff summary, commands, results, and behavior not checked.

Do not combine a newly discovered behavior fix with the structural change. A red result is evidence for the caller; this skill does not revert, narrow, retry, commit, validate, or route subsequent work automatically.

Seam experiments before commitment

When the transformation needs a seam — an extraction boundary, interface, or module split — and more than one candidate seam exists, probe before you cut. Run the probe in disposable isolation (a scratch branch, worktree, or copied tree the caller's policy allows): rough in the seam, see what it forces — signature churn, import cycles, test rewrites — then discard the probe and keep only the knowledge. Stop condition: at most two probes; if the second candidate seam also fights back, report both findings to the caller instead of trying a third. Cutting the first imaginable seam directly into the working tree is the premature seam failure mode: the wrong boundary calcifies because reverting it now costs more than living with it.

Neutrality gates

"Behavior-preserving" is a claim to execute, not assert. Gate the transformation on behavior-identical proof:

  • The focused check and the package-level regression check pass both before and after, with the same set of pre-existing failures — no new red, and no quietly vanished red either (a test that stops running is a behavior change).
  • For output-producing surfaces (generators, serializers, formatters, reports), hash the outputs: capture golden-output hashes over identical inputs before the change and compare byte-for-byte after. A hash mismatch is a behavior diff to surface and explain, never to shrug at; the caller decides whether to keep, narrow, or reverse the change.
  • Observable error messages, exit codes, and public signatures on the changed surface are part of behavior unless the caller excluded them.

Read the full file on GitHub · 87 lines

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 · 87 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 30c934734b38

Subscribe to this mod's changes

refactor is a skill published in the GitHub repository boshu2/agentops (431 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 748 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.

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