refactor

refactor is a skill for Claude Code from FradSer/dotclaude. It costs 55 tokens per session (633 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command workflow for refactoring selected files, directories, or code found through a search. It can also target recently changed files when no scope is supplied.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to simplify a named file or directory, remove dead code, or refactor code matching a description. It is suited to focused changes rather than a whole-project rewrite.
Why use it?
It makes the refactoring scope explicit and avoids accidentally changing dependencies, build output, lock files, or other generated files. It delegates the actual changes to a code-simplification agent.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the refactor plugin — 3 skills, 1 agent shipped together

Good fit Use it to simplify a named file or directory, remove dead code, or refactor code matching a description. It is suited to focused changes rather than a whole-project rewrite.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/fradser/dotclaude/refactor
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 FradSer/dotclaude --skill refactor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/FradSer/dotclaude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install refactor, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 1 agent.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 633 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 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 $0.00055 $0.00633
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00253
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00127
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00063

Measured 22d ago against content hash 635e867f1f26, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

refactor 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 22d 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.

refactor/skills/refactor/SKILL.md · 61 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 61 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Refactor Command

Execute automated refactoring for $ARGUMENTS using refactor:code-simplifier agent.

Pre-operation Checks

Goal: Ensure scope resolution is deterministic before launching the agent.

Actions:

  1. Run git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree and continue even if false when explicit paths are provided
  2. Normalize arguments by trimming whitespace and preserving quoted path segments
  3. Treat an empty argument list as "recent changes" mode

Phase 1: Determine Target Scope

Goal: Identify files to refactor based on arguments or session context.

Actions:

  1. If arguments provided: verify as file/directory paths using Glob
  2. If paths exist: use them directly as refactoring scope
  3. If paths don't exist: treat arguments as semantic query, search codebase with Grep
  4. If no arguments: run git diff --name-only to find recently modified code files
  5. If no recent changes found: inform user and exit without refactoring

CRITICAL: Never include node_modules/, .git/, dist/, build/, lock files, or compiled artifacts in refactoring scope — use Grep --glob exclusions to enforce.

See references/scope-determination.md for search strategies and edge cases.

Phase 2: Launch Refactoring Agent

Goal: Execute refactor:code-simplifier agent with aggressive mode enabled.

Actions:

  1. Launch refactor:code-simplifier agent with target scope and aggressive mode flag
  2. Pass scope determination method (paths, semantic query, or session context)
  3. Agent auto-loads refactor:best-practices skill and applies language-specific patterns

See references/agent-configuration.md for detailed Task parameters.

Phase 3: Summary

Goal: Report comprehensive summary of changes.

Actions:

  1. Report total files refactored and changes categorized by improvement type
  2. List best practices applied and legacy code removed
  3. Suggest tests to run and provide rollback command tailored to actual scope (for example: git restore --worktree --staged <files>)

Read the full file on GitHub · 61 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. 22d ago First seen · 61 lines · 55 tokens per session scan A 635e867f1f26

Subscribe to this mod's changes

refactor is a skill published in the GitHub repository FradSer/dotclaude (593 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 633 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 2026-09-24.

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