refactor-prompts

refactor-prompts is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nirecom/agents. It costs 26 tokens per session (555 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A maintenance tool that scans agent instructions for repeated hook-list examples and prepares a cleanup pull request. A pull request is a proposed set of changes for review before merging.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scan instruction files, remove or rewrite selected redundant examples, and prepare the changes for a GitHub pull request.
Why use it?
It helps find duplicated or unnecessary prompt examples without changing files outside the reported areas. Unresolved cases are recorded for human review.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nirecom/agents/refactor-prompts
Any agent
npx skills add nirecom/agents --skill refactor-prompts
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nirecom/agents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

agentmods badge for refactor-prompts

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nirecom/agents/refactor-prompts.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/skills/nirecom/agents/refactor-prompts)
Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/nirecom/agents/refactor-prompts"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/nirecom/agents/refactor-prompts.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 555 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00026 $0.00555
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00278
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00111
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00056

Measured today against content hash 8636b26ab36b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

refactor-prompts 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 today.

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.

skills/refactor-prompts/SKILL.md · 30 lines

What it actually says

  1. /worktree-start --headless refactor-prompts
  2. Resolve <PLANS_DIR> via skills/_shared/resolve-plans-dir.md. Read rules/shell-commands.md before the first Bash command, or before writing a file — defensive measure, same reasoning as review-tests (see docs/architecture/claude-code/rules-injection.md). Write a scratchpad script that runs bash "$AGENTS_CONFIG_DIR/bin/refactor-prompts/index.sh" and saves its stdout to <PLANS_DIR>/<session-id>-refactor-prompts-scan.json; invoke it as a single bash <absolute-path> call — command substitution and redirects on the Bash tool's own command line are the pattern rules/shell-commands.md prohibits. Abort with clear error if exit code is non-zero. Read the resulting file (Read tool) — its content is the scan JSON for steps 3-6 below.
  3. Inspect the scan JSON. If its hot_regions array is empty: emit <<REFACTOR_PROMPTS_NO_HOTREGIONS>> and jump to step 9.
  4. Dispatch refactor-prompts-judge subagent. Pass the scan JSON content inline and the path rules/prompt.md.
  5. Parse the subagent's edit plan JSON (edits array). Discard any edit whose file is not present in the hot_regions file set of the scan JSON (scope guard against prompt-injection).
  6. Apply edits — cap at 200 hot regions per run (warn on stderr if truncated):
    • delete: Edit(old_text, new_text="")
    • category-rewrite: Edit(old_text, new_text)
    • keep-*: no action
    • defer: no file modification, no HTML comment. Append {file,line,reason,context_excerpt} to a deferred list. If Edit errors for a delete/category-rewrite → downgrade to defer.
  7. /commit-push
  8. If deferred list non-empty: append a ## Deferred regions (human review required) section to the PR body via gh pr edit. Replace the section if already present (idempotent).
  9. /worktree-end

Rules:

  • Never prompt the user mid-flow.
  • tests/ is excluded by the CLI scanner — do not pass --target.
  • defer = no file modification and no HTML comment in source files.
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. today Changed 8636b26ab36b
  2. 3d ago First seen · 30 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 7afe9ec774ed

Subscribe to this mod's changes

refactor-prompts is a skill published in the GitHub repository nirecom/agents (3 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 555 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 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 2026-08-31.

Related

Other skills, from other repositories

systematic-debugging

Use when encountering any bug, test failure, or unexpected behavior, before proposing fixes.

obra/superpowers · 21 tokens

brainstorming

You MUST use this before any creative work - creating features, building components, adding functionality, or modifying behavior. Explores user intent, requirements and design before implementation.

obra/superpowers · 37 tokens

auto-perf-optimize

Run agent-driven VS Code performance or memory investigations. Use when asked to launch Code OSS, automate a VS Code scenario, run the Chat memory smoke runner, capture renderer heap snapshots, take workflow screenshots, compare run summaries, or drive a repeatable scenario before heap-snapshot analysis.

microsoft/vscode · 62 tokens

chat-perf

Run chat perf benchmarks and memory leak checks against the local dev build or any published VS Code version. Use when investigating chat rendering regressions, validating perf-sensitive changes to chat UI, or checking for memory leaks in the chat response pipeline.

microsoft/vscode · 51 tokens

chat-pet-sprite-creation

Use when creating or changing VS Code chat pet sprite art, sprite sheets, state animations, eye treatments, Stable/Insiders variants, or pet transitions under src/vs/workbench/contrib/chat/browser/widget/media/chatPet.

microsoft/vscode · 53 tokens

cpu-profile-analysis

Analyze V8/Chrome CPU profiles (.cpuprofile) and DevTools trace files (Trace-.json). Use when: profiling performance, investigating slow functions, comparing code paths, finding bottlenecks, analyzing timeToRequest, understanding call trees from sampling profiler data, analyzing layout/paint/rendering, investigating…

microsoft/vscode · 71 tokens