polish

A code-quality review and refactoring skill focused on code smells, design problems, and technical debt. It emphasizes clean code, SOLID principles, Ruby patterns, and service objects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to audit changed files or a codebase, prioritize code-quality findings, refactor problematic code, and run tests after each set of changes.
Why use it?
It helps identify maintainability problems systematically and improve the code in small, verified changes. It can coordinate several code-analysis tasks when needed.

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/drn/dots/polish
Any agent
npx skills add drn/dots --skill polish
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/drn/dots

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 53 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,593 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 $0.00053 $0.03593
Opus 5 $0.00026 $0.01796
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00719
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00359

Measured 2d ago against content hash 77457c57a752, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

polish 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.

agents/skills/polish/SKILL.md · 365 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 365 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Clean Code Expert

Analyze a codebase for code smells, SOLID violations, and anti-patterns, then refactor with surgical precision. Produces a prioritized finding report and applies fixes iteratively with test verification.

Orchestration Mode

This skill supports two orchestration modes. Both produce identical analysis quality.

  1. Agent teams (when CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS=1 is set): Uses TeamCreate/SendMessage for coordination. Follow Phases 0-5 as written with team-based instructions.
  2. Parallel agents fallback (default): Uses parallel Agent tool calls with subagent_type: "code-analyst" and run_in_background: true. Each agent receives its checklist prompt and file contents, then returns findings directly. No TeamCreate/SendMessage/TeamDelete needed.

Detect the mode at the start of Phase 0. If team creation fails or is not available, silently fall back to parallel agents mode.

Arguments

  • $ARGUMENTS - Optional: scope to analyze (file path, directory, class name, or description like "the checkout flow"). Defaults to changed files on the current branch, or the full codebase if on the default branch.

Context

  • Current branch: !git branch --show-current
  • Git status: !git status --short
  • Project root: !pwd
  • Project type: !find . -maxdepth 1 \( -name go.mod -o -name Gemfile -o -name package.json -o -name Cargo.toml -o -name pyproject.toml -o -name setup.py -o -name requirements.txt -o -name pom.xml -o -name build.gradle -o -name Makefile \)
  • Test framework: !find . -maxdepth 4 \( -name "*_test.*" -o -name "*.test.*" -o -name "*_spec.*" \)
  • Linter config: !find . -maxdepth 1 \( -name .rubocop.yml -o -name .rubocop_todo.yml -o -name ".eslintrc*" -o -name ".prettierrc*" -o -name revive.toml \)
  • Recent commits: !git log --oneline -5
  • Changes vs main: !git diff --name-only origin/main...HEAD 2>/dev/null | head -50
  • Changes vs master: !git diff --name-only origin/master...HEAD 2>/dev/null | head -50

Overview

Read the full file on GitHub · 365 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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 · 365 lines · 53 tokens per session scan A 77457c57a752

Subscribe to this mod's changes

polish is a skill published in the GitHub repository drn/dots (23 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 53 tokens to every session and 3,593 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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