What is refactor-agents?

A workflow for reorganizing long agent instruction files such as AGENTS.md or CLAUDE.md. It keeps essential rules in the main file and places detailed guidance in linked documents that can be read when needed.

Use it to find contradictions, separate core rules from detailed guidance, create an organized file structure, and identify redundant instructions.

It makes oversized or conflicting instructions easier to understand and maintain.

How mogharsallah/texterify-mcp configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to mogharsallah/texterify-mcp. 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/mogharsallah/texterify-mcp/main/.claude/skills/refactor-agents/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mogharsallah/texterify-mcp

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 40 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,830 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 97% 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00040	$0.01830
Opus 5.5	$0.00016	$0.00732
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00008	$0.00366
Haiku 4.5	$0.00004	$0.00183

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 8ae10493eab1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

refactor-agents 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.

Origin

This is a copy

97% identical to agent-md-refactor — 70 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.

.claude/skills/refactor-agents/SKILL.md · 310 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 310 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Agent MD Refactor

Refactor bloated agent instruction files (AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, COPILOT.md, etc.) to follow progressive disclosure principles - keeping essentials at root and organizing the rest into linked, categorized files.

Triggers

Use this skill when:

"refactor my AGENTS.md" / "refactor my CLAUDE.md"
"split my agent instructions"
"organize my CLAUDE.md file"
"my AGENTS.md is too long"
"progressive disclosure for my instructions"
"clean up my agent config"

Quick Reference

Phase	Action	Output
1. Analyze	Find contradictions	List of conflicts to resolve
2. Extract	Identify essentials	Core instructions for root file
3. Categorize	Group remaining instructions	Logical categories
4. Structure	Create file hierarchy	Root + linked files
5. Prune	Flag for deletion	Redundant/vague instructions

Process

Phase 1: Find Contradictions

Identify any instructions that conflict with each other.

Look for:

Contradictory style guidelines (e.g., "use semicolons" vs "no semicolons")
Conflicting workflow instructions
Incompatible tool preferences
Mutually exclusive patterns

For each contradiction found:

## Contradiction Found

**Instruction A:** [quote]
**Instruction B:** [quote]

**Question:** Which should take precedence, or should both be conditional?

Ask the user to resolve before proceeding.

Phase 2: Identify the Essentials

Extract ONLY what belongs in the root agent file. The root should be minimal - information that applies to every single task.

Essential content (keep in root):

Category	Example
Project description	One sentence: "A React dashboard for analytics"
Package manager	Only if not npm (e.g., "Uses pnpm")
Non-standard commands	Custom build/test/typecheck commands
Critical overrides	Things that MUST override defaults
Universal rules	Applies to 100% of tasks

Read the full file on GitHub · 310 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.

2mo ago First seen · 310 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 8ae10493eab1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

refactor-agents is a skill published in the GitHub repository mogharsallah/texterify-mcp (1 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed ISC. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 1,830 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to agent-md-refactor, differing in 70 lines, and is treated as a copy.

Building agents

refactor-agents next to 6 skills from other repositories
Mod	Type	Stars	Last push	Licence	Scan	Tokens	Works with
refactor-agentsmogharsallah/texterify-mcp	Skill	1	4mo ago	ISC	A	40	Claude Code
imagegenopenai/codex	Skill	134k	today	Apache-2.0	A	113	Codex
local-ai-agentsmicrosoft/ai-agents-for-beginners	Skill	79k	yesterday	MIT	A	200	Claude Code, Codex
playwright-climicrosoft/playwright	Skill	100k	yesterday	Apache-2.0	A	19	Claude Code
browser-automationopenclaw/openclaw	Skill	394k	today	MIT	A	36	Claude Code
systematic-debuggingobra/superpowers	Skill	314k	4d ago	MIT	A	21	Claude Code
next-cache-components-adoptionvercel/next.js	Skill	143k	yesterday	MIT	A	95	Claude Code

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