refactor-break-bw-compat

refactor-break-bw-compat is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OutlineDriven/odin-codex-plugin. It costs 40 tokens per session (1,041 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A refactoring guide for deliberately removing old API paths, compatibility code, adapters, and stale feature flags. A refactor changes code structure without necessarily adding behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when modernizing an API, completing a migration, removing legacy support, or deleting compatibility layers.
Why use it?
It helps prevent old and new paths from coexisting indefinitely, while checking which parts of the code still depend on the old design.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it when modernizing an API, completing a migration, removing legacy support…

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/outlinedriven/odin-codex-plugin/refactor-break-bw-compat
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.

Any agent
npx skills add OutlineDriven/odin-codex-plugin --skill refactor-break-bw-compat
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/odin-codex-plugin

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 1,041 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 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 5.1 $0.00040 $0.01041
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00521
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00208
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00104

Measured 7d ago against content hash 023ae21fef21, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-06, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

refactor-break-bw-compat 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 7d 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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

skills/refactor-break-bw-compat/SKILL.md · 80 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 80 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Breaking Refactors — Freedom Through Structure

Compatibility layers are coupling debt with interest. Every compat shim is a decision deferred, not a decision avoided. Break cleanly, break once, break with evidence.

Principles

  1. No half-measures. A partial migration is worse than no migration — it doubles the surface area and confuses every reader.
  2. One migration direction. Old-to-new only. Never add new-to-old adapters; that entrenches the old path.
  3. Blast radius awareness. Map every consumer before removing anything. Surprise breakage is a planning failure, not a courage signal.
  4. Dead code is a lie. "Just in case" code is not dead — it actively misleads readers about what the system does.
  5. Compat shims are temporary. If a shim has no removal date, it is permanent. If it is permanent, it is architecture. Decide which.

Reconnaissance Checklist

Before breaking anything, find and catalog:

  • @deprecated / #[deprecated] / warnings.warn markers — especially ones without removal versions
  • Version-gated code paths (if version >= X, feature flags, #[cfg(feature = "legacy")])
  • Adapter / shim / bridge / wrapper layers that translate between old and new interfaces
  • Dual serialization formats (v1/v2 JSON schemas, protobuf oneof with legacy fields)
  • Tests that exist solely to validate backward-compatible behavior
  • Configuration keys that toggle between old and new behavior
  • Re-export / forwarding modules that alias old paths to new locations
  • Changelog entries promising deprecation timelines

Decision: Break or Not?

Signal Break Do NOT Break
Zero external consumers Yes
Single internal consumer, you own it Yes
Well-tested, high coverage Yes
Clear new path exists Yes
External/public API with unknown consumers Not without migration plan
No tests covering the boundary Write tests first, then break
Multiple consumers, unclear ownership Map consumers first
Compat layer under active use by migration-in-progress Finish migration first

Read the full file on GitHub · 80 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.

  1. 7d ago First seen · 80 lines · 40 tokens per session scan A 023ae21fef21

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refactor-break-bw-compat is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/odin-codex-plugin (15 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 40 tokens to every session and 1,041 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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