refactor

A workflow for reorganizing code while preserving its existing behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to extract functions or constants, rename code, simplify logic, remove dead code, or reduce duplication.
Why use it?
It provides checks for past issues, defines the type and scope of the cleanup, and encourages testing after changes.

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/ozmasterai/torus-framework/refactor
Any agent
npx skills add OZmasterAI/Torus-Framework --skill refactor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OZmasterAI/Torus-Framework

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,139 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 $0.00000 $0.01139
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00570
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00228
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00114

Measured 2d ago against content hash d9a757c0edde, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 2d 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.

dormant/skills/specialty/refactor/SKILL.md · 109 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 109 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/refactor — Safe, Incremental Code Refactoring

When to use

When the user says "refactor", "extract", "rename", "simplify", "dead code", "cleanup", "restructure", or wants to reorganize code without changing behavior.

Complements /fix (behavior changes) and /review (analysis only) by performing structural improvements while preserving correctness.

Steps

1. MEMORY CHECK

  • search_knowledge("refactor") — find prior refactoring attempts and lessons learned
  • search_knowledge("[target file or module]") — check for known issues in the area
  • query_fix_history("[target area]") — check if past refactors caused regressions
  • If prior refactoring caused problems, present the history and adjust approach

2. SCOPE

Clarify the refactoring type and boundaries with the user:

Refactoring types:

  • Extract function — Pull a block of code into a named function
  • Extract constant — Replace magic numbers/strings with named constants
  • Rename symbol — Rename a function, variable, class, or module across the codebase
  • Simplify logic — Reduce complexity (flatten nesting, simplify conditionals, remove duplication)
  • Dead code removal — Remove unreachable or unused code
  • Move/reorganize — Relocate code to a more appropriate file or module

Define boundaries:

  • Single file, module, or entire codebase?
  • Which functions/classes are in scope?
  • Are tests in scope for refactoring too?

If the scope is unclear, ask the user before proceeding.

3. IMPACT ANALYSIS

Before touching any code, assess the blast radius:

  • Grep all usages of the target symbol/code pattern
  • Count affected files — show the user exactly what will change
  • Check for dynamic references — string-based lookups, reflection, config files, templates
  • Check for public API exposure — will external consumers be affected?
  • Map dependencies — what imports/calls the target? What does it import/call?

Present the impact summary to the user:

Refactoring: [description]
Affected files: N
  - file_a.py:L10 — definition
  - file_b.py:L25, L40 — usage
  - test_file.py:L15 — test reference
Dynamic references: [none found / list them]
Public API impact: [none / description]

Read the full file on GitHub · 109 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. 2d ago First seen · 109 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A d9a757c0edde

Subscribe to this mod's changes

refactor is a skill published in the GitHub repository OZmasterAI/Torus-Framework (5 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 1,139 tokens. 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.

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