A cautious code-refactoring workflow that first records how existing code behaves with characterization tests, then changes it in small steps. Refactoring means improving code structure without intentionally changing what it does.

Use it when restructuring existing code or when the user asks to refactor, clean up, extract, rename, or modernize a codebase.

It lowers the risk of breaking legacy code while cleaning up, renaming, extracting, or modernizing it.

How mfielding92/ClawedBack configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to mfielding92/ClawedBack. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mfielding92/ClawedBack/main/.claude/skills/refactor/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mfielding92/ClawedBack

Made for: Claude Code.

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.

README.md

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Your own site

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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

Your own site · 80×15

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 925 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 unknown 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00046	$0.00925
Opus 5.5	$0.00018	$0.00370
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00009	$0.00185
Haiku 4.5	$0.00005	$0.00093

Measured 2mo ago against content hash b0f465f245bc, 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 2mo 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.

.claude/skills/refactor/SKILL.md · 91 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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.

2mo ago First seen · 91 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A b0f465f245bc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

refactor is a skill published in the GitHub repository mfielding92/ClawedBack (22 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 925 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 2026-08-30.

Code review

refactor next to 6 skills from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
refactormfielding92/ClawedBack	Skill	22	2mo ago	AGPL-3.0	A	46	Claude Code
autoreviewopenclaw/clawhub	Skill	9.5k	yesterday	MIT	A	17	Claude Code, Codex
agent-teams-simplify-and-hardenLeoYeAI/openclaw-master-skills	Skill	2.2k	6d ago	MIT	A	115	Claude Code, Codex
omh-code-reviewrlaope/oh-my-hermes	Skill	5.2k	yesterday	MIT	A	48	Claude Code, Codex
revdiff-planumputun/revdiff	Skill	945	yesterday	MIT	A	84	Claude Code
explore-unknownsdzhng/skills	Skill	1.4k	2d ago	MIT	A	162	Claude Code, Codex
re0-mergeLilMGenius/paperthin	Skill	1.4k	4d ago	MIT	A	70	Claude Code

ClawedBack: Skill for Claude Code