What is ide-refactor?

A refactoring process that uses IDE code intelligence, tests, and Git for rollback. Refactoring changes code structure without intending to change its behavior.

Use it to rename symbols, apply code actions, run tests, and revert the refactor if the tests fail.

It protects against accidental breakage by checking the working tree first and testing the result before offering a rollback.

How Oolab-labs/patchwork-os configures Claude Code

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to Oolab-labs/patchwork-os. 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/Oolab-labs/patchwork-os/main/.claude/skills/ide-refactor/SKILL.md

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Oolab-labs/patchwork-os

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 44 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 1,138 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. Third-party audits

NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026

How audits are shown

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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00044	$0.01138
Opus 5.5	$0.00018	$0.00455
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00009	$0.00228
Haiku 4.5	$0.00004	$0.00114

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 654980785912, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

ide-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 1mo 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/ide-refactor/SKILL.md · 107 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 107 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

IDE Safe Refactor Workflow

Prerequisites

Check if the getToolCapabilities MCP tool is available to you.
- Not available (no MCP tool by that name): stop and tell the user: "This skill requires the Claude IDE Bridge with a connected VS Code extension. It uses LSP tools (rename symbol, code actions, references, snapshots) that have no CLI equivalent.
  
  To use this skill:
  1. Start the bridge: npm run start-all (in claude-ide-bridge/)
  2. Ensure the Claude IDE Bridge extension is installed in your IDE
  3. Use the claude --ide session (not remote-control)"
- Available: call it. If extensionConnected is false: show the same message. If true: proceed.

Perform refactoring with a safety net. The safety net is git: the working tree is verified clean before anything is touched, so git checkout reverts the whole change if tests fail afterwards.

Workflow

Phase 1: Checkpoint

There is no snapshot tool. Git is the rollback mechanism, and it only works if the tree is clean first — otherwise a revert would discard the user's unrelated work along with the refactoring.

Call getGitStatus.
- Clean tree: proceed. git checkout -- . will revert everything this skill does.
- Uncommitted changes present: stop and offer the choice — "You have uncommitted changes. I can't offer a clean rollback until they're saved. Commit them, or shall I gitStash them first and restore them after?" Never proceed silently: doing so leaves the user with no way to undo the refactor without also losing their own work.
Confirm: "Working tree clean — git checkout will revert this. Starting refactoring: $ARGUMENTS"

Phase 2: Plan the refactoring

Analyze what needs to change based on the description: $ARGUMENTS
Use searchWorkspace and getDocumentSymbols to identify all affected symbols
Use findReferences to map the impact across the codebase
Use getCallHierarchy to understand dependency chains
List all files that will be affected and confirm the plan

Read the full file on GitHub · 107 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.

1mo ago First seen · 107 lines · 44 tokens per session scan A 654980785912

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ide-refactor is a skill published in the GitHub repository Oolab-labs/patchwork-os (31 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 44 tokens to every session and 1,138 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.

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