template-refactoring

Instructions for restructuring code while preserving its externally visible behavior, including moving logic, splitting modules, and renaming programming interfaces.

In plain words
What is it for?
Extracting logic into source modules, removing duplication, updating all callers, documenting breaking changes, and running tests and code-quality checks.
Why use it?
They provide a controlled migration path so refactoring does not leave broken imports, tests, documentation, or public functions behind.

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/docxology/template/refactoring
Any agent
npx skills add docxology/template --skill refactoring
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/docxology/template

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 48 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 472 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 $0.00048 $0.00472
Opus 5 $0.00024 $0.00236
Sonnet 5 $0.00010 $0.00094
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00047

Measured 2d ago against content hash d55c6d43c2d3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

template-refactoring 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.

docs/prompts/refactoring/SKILL.md · 67 lines

What it actually says

Refactoring

Natural invoke

  • "Extract analysis logic from scripts/ into src/"
  • "Split infrastructure/validation monolith into smaller modules"
  • "Rename public API with all call sites updated"

Inputs to confirm

  • Scope — paths/modules affected.
  • Behavior — preserve externally observable behavior unless user requests breaking change.

Workflow

  1. Baseline — run tests on scope; record coverage.

  2. Move logic — from scripts to src/ or infrastructure/; keep orchestrators thin.

  3. Update imports — repo-wide grep; fix tests and docs.

  4. Migration — if breaking, document in project/infrastructure AGENTS.md; no silent API removal.

  5. Verify — pytest + ruff/mypy on public scope paths; pipeline smoke if project scripts moved.

Deliverables

  • Before/after structure summary
  • Test command output showing pass + coverage maintained

Verification commands

uv run pytest <affected-test-path> -v
uv run python -m infrastructure.project.public_scope lint-paths | xargs uv run ruff check
uv run python scripts/pipeline/stage_01_test.py --project <project>  # when project scope

When NOT to use

References

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. 2d ago First seen · 67 lines · 48 tokens per session scan A d55c6d43c2d3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

template-refactoring is a skill published in the GitHub repository docxology/template (19 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 48 tokens to every session and 472 once invoked, about $0.0002 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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