plan-architecture-refactor

plan-architecture-refactor is a skill for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor from Jacoby6000/Smithplates. It costs 71 tokens per session (1,203 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A method for planning an architecture refactor, meaning a controlled change to how an existing codebase is organized. It compares a documented current architecture with a documented target architecture and orders behavior-preserving steps.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to create an incremental migration plan, choose adapters or other transition strategies, and define checks for each refactoring step.
Why use it?
It shows the gap between today’s design and the desired one while keeping each migration step compilable and testable.

Skill for Claude CodeCodexCursor

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jacoby6000/smithplates/plan-architecture-refactor
Any agent
npx skills add Jacoby6000/Smithplates --skill plan-architecture-refactor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Jacoby6000/Smithplates

Made for: Claude Code, Codex, Cursor.

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When invoked 1,203 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

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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 $0.00071 $0.01203
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00602
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00241
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00120

Measured 3d ago against content hash 05111c195066, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

plan-architecture-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 3d 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.

.cursor/skills/plan-architecture-refactor/SKILL.md · 139 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 139 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Plan Architecture Refactor

Diff a current Conceptual Architecture Document (CAD) against a target CAD and produce an ordered, incremental refactoring plan. Read the shared schema at .ai-doc-reference/cad-contract.md (repo root) so you can align the two documents by their stable identifiers.

The plan must be incremental and behavior-preserving: each step should leave the codebase compiling and tests green. No big-bang rewrites.

Inputs required (do not guess)

  • Current CAD (Kind: current) — produce via analyze-codebase-architecture if missing.
  • Target CAD (Kind: target) — produce via design-target-architecture if missing.

If either is absent, offer to generate it with the sibling skill before planning. If the two CADs use different Target language(s) or are otherwise incomparable, stop and ask the user. Never fabricate the missing side.

Workflow

Copy this checklist and track progress:

- [ ] 1. Validate both CADs (kinds, comparability)
- [ ] 2. Gap analysis: align by identifier; classify each delta
- [ ] 3. Sequence deltas into safe, incremental steps
- [ ] 4. Choose a strategy per step (seams, adapters, migration)
- [ ] 5. Define validation and rollback per step
- [ ] 6. Emit the refactoring plan; offer to save

1. Validate inputs

Confirm one CAD is current and one is target, and that they are comparable. Surface mismatches before proceeding.

2. Gap analysis

Align entries by their stable identifiers and classify every delta:

  • Domain model: types to add / change / remove; invariant changes.
  • Interfaces: added / removed / renamed / signature-changed.
  • Implementations: to add, replace, or retire; rewiring of dependencies (e.g. container/global → explicit injection).
  • Relationships: dependency-direction corrections, decoupling, layer moves.
  • Patterns: patterns to introduce or remove.

Present this as a concise gap table before the step plan.

3. Sequence into incremental steps

Read the full file on GitHub · 139 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. 3d ago First seen · 139 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 05111c195066

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plan-architecture-refactor is a skill published in the GitHub repository Jacoby6000/Smithplates (2 stars, last pushed 23d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 71 tokens to every session and 1,203 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.

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