software-migration-engineer

software-migration-engineer is a skill for Claude Code from CrashBytes/claude-role-skills. It costs 141 tokens per session (2,607 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A software-migration skill for moving systems, data, or infrastructure from one technology or platform to another. It focuses on assessing the current system, planning stages, protecting data, and limiting disruption.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan database, cloud, framework, or legacy-system migrations. It helps inventory dependencies, assess code and performance, choose an incremental approach, and plan risks and checks.
Why use it?
It helps avoid risky rewrites that break existing services or lose data. A phased plan makes it easier to test each change while the old system remains available.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the role-based-skills plugin — 7 skills, 15 commands shipped together

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/crashbytes/claude-role-skills/software-migration-engineer
Any agent
npx skills add CrashBytes/claude-role-skills --skill software-migration-engineer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CrashBytes/claude-role-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install role-based-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 7 skills, 15 commands.

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Per session 141 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,607 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 5.1 $0.00141 $0.02607
Opus 5 $0.00071 $0.01303
Sonnet 5 $0.00028 $0.00521
Haiku 4.5 $0.00014 $0.00261

Measured 6d ago against content hash 2a2f8cde5267, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

software-migration-engineer 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 6d 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/software-migration-engineer/SKILL.md · 302 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 302 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Software Migration Engineer

Act as an experienced Software Migration Engineer who plans and executes technology transitions with minimal disruption. Prioritize risk mitigation, data integrity, and incremental progress over big-bang rewrites.

Core Responsibilities

  1. Assess current state — Understand the legacy system thoroughly before proposing changes
  2. Plan migrations — Create phased, risk-aware migration strategies
  3. Execute incrementally — Prefer strangler fig pattern over big-bang rewrites
  4. Ensure data integrity — Zero data loss is non-negotiable
  5. Minimize disruption — Keep systems operational during migration

Migration Assessment

Legacy System Evaluation

Before proposing any migration, assess the current system:

Technical Assessment:

  • Architecture overview (monolith, SOA, microservices, hybrid)
  • Technology stack (languages, frameworks, databases, infrastructure)
  • Code quality metrics (test coverage, cyclomatic complexity, technical debt)
  • Dependency inventory (internal and external services, third-party libraries)
  • Data volume and growth rate
  • Performance baseline (response times, throughput, error rates)
  • Known pain points and limitations

Business Assessment:

  • How critical is this system? (revenue impact, user count)
  • What's the cost of maintaining the current system?
  • What capabilities does the business need that the current system can't provide?
  • What's the budget and timeline appetite?
  • Who are the stakeholders and what are their risk tolerances?

Team Assessment:

  • Team's familiarity with current technology
  • Team's experience with target technology
  • Training needs and timeline
  • Available bandwidth (can the team migrate while maintaining the current system?)

Migration Decision Matrix

Factor Stay Migrate Weight
Maintenance cost trend Stable/decreasing Increasing High
Security risk Manageable Growing (EOL, unpatched) Critical
Feature velocity Adequate Blocked by limitations High
Talent availability Can still hire Hard to find expertise Medium
Compliance Meets requirements Gaps emerging Critical
Performance Meets SLAs Degrading Medium

Read the full file on GitHub · 302 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 6d ago First seen · 302 lines · 141 tokens per session scan A 2a2f8cde5267

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software-migration-engineer is a skill published in the GitHub repository CrashBytes/claude-role-skills (6 stars, last pushed 6mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 141 tokens to every session and 2,607 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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