principle-migrate-callers-then-delete-legacy-apis

principle-migrate-callers-then-delete-legacy-apis is a skill for Claude Code from michael-denyer/pstack-claude. It costs 45 tokens per session (228 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of principle-migrate-callers-then-delete-legacy-apis, MIT.

A software design rule for replacing an internal programming interface, called an API, when only the same project uses it. It says to move existing callers to the new interface and remove the old one in the same change.

In plain words
What is it for?
It guides refactors by listing callers, updating them and their tests, deleting the old API, and using temporary adapters only when there is a clear time limit.
Why use it?
Keeping both interfaces creates duplicate paths and leaves outdated code in place, making future changes harder to understand and maintain.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: user-invocable in frontmatter.

Part of the pstack plugin — 56 skills, 2 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit It guides refactors by listing callers, updating them and their tests, deleting the old API, and using temporary adapters only when there is a clear time limit.

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npx agentmods add skills/michael-denyer/pstack-claude/principle-migrate-callers-then-delete-legacy-apis
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Any agent
npx skills add michael-denyer/pstack-claude --skill principle-migrate-callers-then-delete-legacy-apis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/michael-denyer/pstack-claude

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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 228 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 88% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00045 $0.00228
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00114
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00046
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00023

Measured 3d ago against content hash 8014f4eb04fe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-11, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

principle-migrate-callers-then-delete-legacy-apis 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.

Origin

This is a copy

88% identical to principle-migrate-callers-then-delete-legacy-apis — 4 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.

plugins/pstack/skills/principle-migrate-callers-then-delete-legacy-apis/SKILL.md · 23 lines

What it actually says

Migrate Callers Then Delete Legacy APIs

When we decide a new API is the right design, migrate callers and remove the old API in the same refactor wave instead of preserving compatibility layers.

Rule:

  • Do not keep legacy API paths only because internal callers still exist
  • Inventory callers, migrate them, and delete the old API immediately
  • Treat temporary adapters as exceptional and time-boxed, not default architecture
  • Update tests to assert the new contract, and delete tests that only protect pre-refactor implementation details

When this applies:

  • No external users depend on backward compatibility
  • The project can absorb coordinated breaking changes
  • The new API is part of a simplification or refactor initiative

Keeping both old and new APIs creates dual-path complexity, slows cleanup, and makes the codebase feel append-only.

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 Changed 8014f4eb04fe
  2. 12d ago First seen · 23 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A 14c88d4c3c9c

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principle-migrate-callers-then-delete-legacy-apis is a skill published in the GitHub repository michael-denyer/pstack-claude (341 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 228 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to principle-migrate-callers-then-delete-legacy-apis, differing in 4 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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