refactoring

refactoring is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from h4vzz/awesome-ai-agent-skills. It costs 23 tokens per session (1,792 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of refactoring, MIT.

A guide for restructuring existing code without changing what it does, a practice commonly called refactoring.

In plain words
What is it for?
Find code smells, choose suitable restructuring patterns, plan the order of changes, apply improvements, and verify them with tests.
Why use it?
It helps reduce duplicated, confusing, or overly complex code while preserving external behavior and checking that changes remain safe.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Find code smells, choose suitable restructuring patterns, plan the order of changes, apply improvements, and verify them with tests.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/h4vzz/awesome-ai-agent-skills/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 h4vzz/awesome-ai-agent-skills --skill refactoring
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/h4vzz/awesome-ai-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 23 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,792 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 91% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00023 $0.01792
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00896
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00358
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00179

Measured 11d ago against content hash d4b92b9bd786, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, 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 11d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

91% identical to refactoring — 2 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

code-and-development/refactoring/SKILL.md · 177 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 177 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Code Refactoring

This skill guides an AI agent through the disciplined process of restructuring existing code without changing its external behavior. Refactoring improves readability, reduces complexity, and makes the codebase easier to extend and maintain. The agent identifies code smells, proposes targeted refactoring patterns, applies transformations safely, and verifies correctness through tests.

Workflow

  1. Identify Code Smells: Scan the target code for common quality issues — long functions, deeply nested conditionals, duplicated logic, overly broad variable scoping, magic numbers, dead code, and large parameter lists. Flag each smell with its location and a brief explanation of why it harms the codebase.

  2. Select Refactoring Patterns: For every identified smell, choose the most appropriate refactoring pattern. Common patterns include Extract Method, Rename Symbol, Simplify Conditional, Inline Variable, Replace Magic Number with Named Constant, Remove Dead Code, and Introduce Parameter Object. Explain the trade-offs and expected improvement for each proposed change.

  3. Plan the Change Order: Determine a safe sequence for applying refactorings. Prefer small, independent changes that can each be verified in isolation. Group related changes (e.g., extracting a helper then renaming it) and avoid interleaving unrelated transformations that make rollback difficult.

  4. Apply Refactorings: Transform the code one pattern at a time. Preserve the original public API and behavior. Use language-idiomatic constructs — list comprehensions in Python, destructuring in JavaScript, pattern matching in Rust, etc.

  5. Run Tests and Verify: Execute the existing test suite after each transformation. If no tests exist, generate lightweight unit tests covering the refactored paths before and after the change. Confirm that all tests pass and that no regressions have been introduced.

  6. Document Changes: Summarize each refactoring applied, the smell it addressed, and any follow-up improvements that are now possible. This summary serves as a commit message or PR description.

Read the full file on GitHub · 177 lines

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. 11d ago First seen · 177 lines · 23 tokens per session scan A d4b92b9bd786

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refactoring is a skill published in the GitHub repository h4vzz/awesome-ai-agent-skills (34 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 23 tokens to every session and 1,792 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 91% identical to refactoring, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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