refactoring

refactoring is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from fabiandistler/agents. It costs 50 tokens per session (1,055 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

Guidance for safely restructuring existing code, adding features with tests first, and staging changes whose effects may spread across the codebase.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it for code restructuring, reviewing refactoring findings, deciding whether a refactor is safe to begin, and building features through test-driven development, where tests guide the implementation in repeated red, green, and refactor steps.
Why use it?
It helps reduce the risk of breaking behaviour during refactoring or changes with an uncertain impact.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it for code restructuring, reviewing refactoring findings, deciding whether a refactor is safe to begin, and building features through test-driven development, where tests guide the implementation in repeated red, green, and refactor steps.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fabiandistler/agents/refactoring
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.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for refactoring

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/fabiandistler/agents/refactoring/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/fabiandistler/agents/refactoring)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/fabiandistler/agents/refactoring"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/fabiandistler/agents/refactoring/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>

Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for refactoring

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/fabiandistler/agents/refactoring"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/fabiandistler/agents/refactoring.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 50 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,055 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00050 $0.01055
Opus 5.5 $0.00020 $0.00422
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00211
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00105

Measured 6d ago against content hash 2025efb8bf02, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 6d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (scripts/churn.py, scripts/test_churn.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/refactoring/SKILL.md · 85 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 6d ago Changed · -6 tokens per session 2025efb8bf02
  2. 25d ago Changed · +1 lines 84f9a801584b
  3. 1mo ago Changed · +7 lines 087f824ab3f7
  4. 1mo ago Changed · +6 lines 93a0069e379d
  5. 1mo ago Changed · -133 lines · -25 tokens per session 97df933dc51a
  6. 1mo ago Changed · +35 lines 9df91ecd1e04
  7. 2mo ago First seen · 169 lines · 81 tokens per session scan A 713bec3feedc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

refactoring is a skill published in the GitHub repository fabiandistler/agents (2 stars, last pushed yesterday), with no licence file. It adds 50 tokens to every session and 1,055 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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