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

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

An internal API refactoring rule: move all in-project callers to the new interface, then remove the old one when there are no outside users to support.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it during coordinated refactors where an internal function or service interface is being replaced. It also covers updating tests to check the new contract.
Why use it?
Keeping both interfaces creates duplicate paths and makes the code harder to simplify. It prevents temporary compatibility code from becoming permanent.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: user-invocable in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the pstack plugin — 55 skills, 2 agents shipped together

Good fit Use it during coordinated refactors where an internal function or service interface is being replaced. It also covers updating tests to check the new contract.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/minghinmatthewlam/agent-guards/principle-migrate-callers-then-delete-legacy-apis
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add minghinmatthewlam/agent-guards --skill principle-migrate-callers-then-delete-legacy-apis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/minghinmatthewlam/agent-guards

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 91% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00045 $0.00228
Opus 5.5 $0.00018 $0.00091
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00009 $0.00046
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00023

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8014f4eb04fe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 2d 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

91% identical to principle-migrate-callers-then-delete-legacy-apis — 8 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.

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

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principle-migrate-callers-then-delete-legacy-apis is a skill published in the GitHub repository minghinmatthewlam/agent-guards (47 stars, last pushed 2d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 228 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 91% identical to principle-migrate-callers-then-delete-legacy-apis, differing in 8 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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