141-java-refactoring-with-modern-features

141-java-refactoring-with-modern-features is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jabrena/plinth. It costs 148 tokens per session (786 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A guide to updating older Java code with features introduced in Java 8 and later, such as lambdas, streams, Optional, modern date and time classes, and immutable collection factories.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when refactoring legacy Java loops, anonymous classes, date handling, nullable values, strings, collections, or newer Java language features.
Why use it?
It helps replace verbose or error-prone patterns with clearer standard Java code while checking that the project still compiles and works.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Good fit Use it when refactoring legacy Java loops, anonymous classes, date handling, nullable values, strings, collections, or newer Java language features.

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Install with agentmods
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Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add jabrena/plinth --skill 141-java-refactoring-with-modern-features
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jabrena/plinth

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 148 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 786 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
  • Socket pass 1 Aug 2026
  • Snyk pass 1 Aug 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00148 $0.00786
Opus 5 $0.00074 $0.00393
Sonnet 5 $0.00030 $0.00157
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00079

Measured 7d ago against content hash 31ea570469a4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

141-java-refactoring-with-modern-features 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 7d ago.

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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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/141-java-refactoring-with-modern-features/SKILL.md · 67 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 67 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Modern Java Development Guidelines (Java 8+)

Identify and apply modern Java (Java 8+) refactoring opportunities to improve readability, maintainability, and performance.

What is covered in this Skill?

  • Lambda expressions and method references (over anonymous classes)
  • Stream API for declarative collection processing
  • Optional for null-safe APIs
  • java.time API (replacing Date/Calendar)
  • Default interface methods, var type inference
  • Unmodifiable collection factory methods (List.of(), Set.of(), Map.of())
  • Text blocks for multi-line strings
  • Java 25 Flexible Constructor Bodies (JEP 513)
  • Java 25 Module Import Declarations (JEP 511)

Scope: The reference is organized by examples (good/bad code patterns) for each core area. Apply recommendations based on applicable examples.

Constraints

Before applying any modern Java refactoring, ensure the project compiles. If compilation fails, stop immediately — do not proceed until the project compiles successfully. After applying improvements, run full verification.

  • MANDATORY: Run ./mvnw compile or mvn compile before applying any changes
  • SAFETY: If compilation fails, stop immediately — do not proceed until the project compiles successfully
  • VERIFY: Run ./mvnw clean verify or mvn clean verify after applying improvements
  • BEFORE APPLYING: Read the reference for detailed good/bad examples, constraints, and safeguards for each modern Java feature
  • EDGE CASE: If request scope is ambiguous, stop and ask a clarifying question before applying changes
  • EDGE CASE: If required inputs, files, or tooling are missing, report what is missing and ask whether to proceed with setup guidance

When to use this skill

  • Review Java code for modern Java development
  • Apply best practices for modern Java development in Java code
  • Modernize Java code with records pattern matching or switch expressions
  • Replace legacy idioms with modern Java features
  • Adopt Java 8+ language features safely

Read the full file on GitHub · 67 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 7d ago First seen · 67 lines · 148 tokens per session scan A 31ea570469a4

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141-java-refactoring-with-modern-features is a skill published in the GitHub repository jabrena/plinth (438 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 148 tokens to every session and 786 once invoked, about $0.0007 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 2026-09-03.

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