improve-codebase-architecture

improve-codebase-architecture is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from openstatusHQ/data-table-filters. It costs 64 tokens per session (867 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of deep-module-refactor, MIT.

A code-review method for finding architectural changes that make a software project easier to test and understand. It focuses on “deep modules”: small interfaces that hide more of the implementation behind them.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to explore a codebase, find hard-to-test or tightly coupled areas, identify opportunities to combine shallow modules, and write proposed improvements as GitHub issue drafts.
Why use it?
It identifies places where understanding or testing the code requires jumping through many small, tightly connected files. The result is a set of proposed refactoring issues rather than automatic code changes.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the data-table-filters plugin — 15 skills, 1 hook, 2 MCP servers shipped together

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/openstatushq/data-table-filters/improve-codebase-architecture
Any agent
npx skills add openstatusHQ/data-table-filters --skill improve-codebase-architecture
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/openstatusHQ/data-table-filters

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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When invoked 867 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 97% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00064 $0.00867
Opus 5 $0.00032 $0.00434
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00173
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00087

Measured 3d ago against content hash 8e4831b6332a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

improve-codebase-architecture 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

97% identical to deep-module-refactor — 2 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.

.agents/skills/improve-codebase-architecture/SKILL.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Improve Codebase Architecture

Explore a codebase like an AI would, surface architectural friction, discover opportunities for improving testability, and propose module-deepening refactors as GitHub issue RFCs.

A deep module (John Ousterhout, "A Philosophy of Software Design") has a small interface hiding a large implementation. Deep modules are more testable, more AI-navigable, and let you test at the boundary instead of inside.

Process

1. Explore the codebase

Use the Agent tool with subagent_type=Explore to navigate the codebase naturally. Do NOT follow rigid heuristics — explore organically and note where you experience friction:

  • Where does understanding one concept require bouncing between many small files?
  • Where are modules so shallow that the interface is nearly as complex as the implementation?
  • Where have pure functions been extracted just for testability, but the real bugs hide in how they're called?
  • Where do tightly-coupled modules create integration risk in the seams between them?
  • Which parts of the codebase are untested, or hard to test?

The friction you encounter IS the signal.

2. Present candidates

Present a numbered list of deepening opportunities. For each candidate, show:

  • Cluster: Which modules/concepts are involved
  • Why they're coupled: Shared types, call patterns, co-ownership of a concept
  • Dependency category: See REFERENCE.md for the four categories
  • Test impact: What existing tests would be replaced by boundary tests

Do NOT propose interfaces yet. Ask the user: "Which of these would you like to explore?"

3. User picks a candidate

4. Frame the problem space

Before spawning sub-agents, write a user-facing explanation of the problem space for the chosen candidate:

  • The constraints any new interface would need to satisfy
  • The dependencies it would need to rely on
  • A rough illustrative code sketch to make the constraints concrete — this is not a proposal, just a way to ground the constraints

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 lines

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. 3d ago First seen · 77 lines · 64 tokens per session scan A 8e4831b6332a

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improve-codebase-architecture is a skill published in the GitHub repository openstatusHQ/data-table-filters (2,206 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 64 tokens to every session and 867 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to deep-module-refactor, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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