improve-codebase-architecture

improve-codebase-architecture is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from build-with-dhiraj/ai-workflow-framework-portability-kit. It costs 38 tokens per session (1,120 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of improve-codebase-architecture, MIT.

A codebase review focused on finding architectural friction and refactoring opportunities. Refactoring means changing code structure without changing what it does, with attention to making modules easier to test and understand.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect a repository alongside its context and architecture records, then propose ways to separate responsibilities, improve testability, and make changes more local.
Why use it?
It helps reveal modules that are difficult to change or test and provides a consistent vocabulary for discussing how their interfaces and implementations should improve.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to inspect a repository alongside its context and architecture records, then propose ways to separate responsibilities, improve testability, and make changes more local.

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npx agentmods add skills/build-with-dhiraj/ai-workflow-framework-portability-kit/improve-codebase-architecture
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Any agent
npx skills add build-with-dhiraj/ai-workflow-framework-portability-kit --skill improve-codebase-architecture
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/build-with-dhiraj/ai-workflow-framework-portability-kit

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Origin 72% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
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72% identical to improve-codebase-architecture — 78 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.

Skills/improve-codebase-architecture/SKILL.md · 72 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 72 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Improve Codebase Architecture

Surface architectural friction and propose deepening opportunities — refactors that turn shallow modules into deep ones. The aim is testability and AI-navigability.

Glossary

Use these terms exactly in every suggestion. Consistent language is the point — don't drift into "component," "service," "API," or "boundary." Full definitions in LANGUAGE.md.

  • Module — anything with an interface and an implementation (function, class, package, slice).
  • Interface — everything a caller must know to use the module: types, invariants, error modes, ordering, config. Not just the type signature.
  • Implementation — the code inside.
  • Depth — leverage at the interface: a lot of behaviour behind a small interface. Deep = high leverage. Shallow = interface nearly as complex as the implementation.
  • Seam — where an interface lives; a place behaviour can be altered without editing in place. (Use this, not "boundary.")
  • Adapter — a concrete thing satisfying an interface at a seam.
  • Leverage — what callers get from depth.
  • Locality — what maintainers get from depth: change, bugs, knowledge concentrated in one place.

Key principles (see LANGUAGE.md for the full list):

  • Deletion test: imagine deleting the module. If complexity vanishes, it was a pass-through. If complexity reappears across N callers, it was earning its keep.
  • The interface is the test surface.
  • One adapter = hypothetical seam. Two adapters = real seam.

This skill is informed by the project's domain model. The domain language gives names to good seams; ADRs record decisions the skill should not re-litigate.

Process

1. Explore

Read the project's domain glossary and any ADRs in the area you're touching first.

Then use the Agent tool with subagent_type=Explore to walk the codebase. Don't follow rigid heuristics — explore organically and note where you experience friction:

  • Where does understanding one concept require bouncing between many small modules?
  • Where are modules shallow — interface nearly as complex as the implementation?
  • Where have pure functions been extracted just for testability, but the real bugs hide in how they're called (no locality)?
  • Where do tightly-coupled modules leak across their seams?
  • Which parts of the codebase are untested, or hard to test through their current interface?

Read the full file on GitHub · 72 lines

Files

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  1. 26d ago First seen · 72 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 9a890bdf2d2b

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improve-codebase-architecture is a skill published in the GitHub repository build-with-dhiraj/ai-workflow-framework-portability-kit (5 stars, last pushed 13d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 1,120 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 72% identical to improve-codebase-architecture, differing in 78 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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