code-refactor

code-refactor is a skill for Claude Code from laurigates/claude-plugins. It costs 39 tokens per session (784 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A refactoring guide for making code easier to reason about by separating business logic from input, output, and other side effects.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to extract pure functions, avoid changing data in place, and reorganize loops and I/O-heavy code.
Why use it?
It addresses tangled functions, changing shared state, deep nesting, and repetitive step-by-step code.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the TodoWrite tool; positional $N argument.

Part of the code-quality-plugin plugin — 17 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to extract pure functions, avoid changing data in place, and reorganize loops and I/O-heavy code.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/laurigates/claude-plugins/code-refactor
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add laurigates/claude-plugins --skill code-refactor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/laurigates/claude-plugins

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install code-quality-plugin, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 17 skills.

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Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 784 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
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 $0.00039 $0.00784
Opus 5.5 $0.00016 $0.00314
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00157
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00078

Measured 16d ago against content hash b5c6c52c7bce, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

code-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 16d 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.

code-quality-plugin/skills/code-refactor/SKILL.md · 79 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 79 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

When to Use This Skill

Use this skill when... Use something else when...
A file or directory has mixed side effects and business logic Deduplicating code across files → /code:dry-consolidation
Functions mutate state or parameters Detecting code smells without fixing → /code:antipatterns
Business logic is tangled with I/O or logging Reviewing overall quality and architecture → /code:review
Imperative loops can be replaced with map/filter/reduce Large multi-phase refactor spanning 10+ files → /workflow:checkpoint-refactor
Deep nesting obscures intent

Context

  • Target path: !echo "$1"

Parameters

  • $1: Required file path or directory to refactor

Your task

Delegate this task to the agents-plugin:refactor agent.

Use the Agent tool with subagent_type: agents-plugin:refactor to refactor the specified code. Pass all the context gathered in Context to the agent.

The refactor agent should:

  1. Identify refactoring opportunities — look for these FP code smells:

    • Side effects (mutation, I/O, logging) mixed into computation functions
    • Parameters or external state mutated in place
    • Imperative loops (for, while) that could be map, filter, reduce, or flatMap
    • Shared mutable state accessed across functions
    • Deep nesting where early returns or guard clauses would clarify intent
    • Business logic entangled with I/O at call sites
    • Duplicated transformation logic
  2. Apply functional programming principles:

    • Pure functions: Extract computation into functions with no side effects — same input always produces same output
    • Immutability: Replace in-place mutation with data transformations (spread, map, Object.assign, structural copies)
    • Composition: Build complex behavior from small, focused, single-purpose functions
    • Higher-order functions: Replace imperative loops with map, filter, reduce, flatMap, find
    • Explicit effects: Push I/O, logging, and mutations to the outermost boundary; keep inner functions pure
    • Early returns / guard clauses: Validate preconditions at the top, return early to avoid deep nesting
    • DRY / KISS: Eliminate repetition; prefer the simplest shape that works

Read the full file on GitHub · 79 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. 16d ago Changed b5c6c52c7bce
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 79 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A 6cc66a768a8a

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code-refactor is a skill published in the GitHub repository laurigates/claude-plugins (59 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 784 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 2026-09-03.

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