large-file-refactor

large-file-refactor is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from PaulRBerg/agent-skills. It costs 26 tokens per session (782 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review of very large source files to find candidates for splitting into smaller, more focused files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to scan a project, identify the three largest matching files, and create plans for safer refactoring. Generated and dependency files are skipped unless included.
Why use it?
Large files can be harder to understand, change, test, and own. The review considers whether splitting is justified by related code, dependencies, ownership, and change risk.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to scan a project, identify the three largest matching files, and create plans for safer refactoring. Generated and dependency files are skipped unless included.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/paulrberg/agent-skills/large-file-refactor
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 PaulRBerg/agent-skills --skill large-file-refactor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/PaulRBerg/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 26 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 782 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.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00026 $0.00782
Opus 5 $0.00013 $0.00391
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00156
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00078

Measured 10d ago against content hash 2ac6250fe5c4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

large-file-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 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/large-file-refactor.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/large-file-refactor/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.

Large File Refactor

This skill is coordination-exempt: skip the ai-coord gate for its declared work.

If these instructions are already present in the conversation from a slash or dollar invocation, follow them directly; do not invoke this skill again through a skill tool.

Use LOC thresholds to discover candidates, then decide whether a split is justified by cohesion, coupling, ownership, and change risk. Test files use a relaxed 2000 LOC discovery threshold.

Arguments

  • path: Optional file or directory to scan. Default: current working directory.
  • --include-generated: Include generated, vendored, dependency, and build-output paths that are skipped by default.

Workflow

  1. Resolve the skill directory, then run the helper from the target repository:

    uv run "<skill-dir>/scripts/large-file-refactor.py" [path] [--include-generated]
    
  2. Preserve the helper's Markdown table as the exhaustive report. Do not omit matching rows, even when the refactor plan only covers a subset.

  3. If the helper reports no threshold matches, stop after the report. A match is a candidate, not proof that the file should be split.

  4. Draft a refactor plan for the 3 largest files only, unless the user explicitly requested another count.

  5. For each candidate, rank split value by mixed responsibilities, change frequency/risk, coupling, and testability. Use whichever semantic symbol/reference tooling is available; prefer Serena when installed:

    • Inspect symbol overviews, references, imports, and relevant history.
    • Use the evidence to choose extraction boundaries, target module names, migration order, and test coverage.
  6. Do not implement the refactor unless the user separately asks for execution.

Refactor Plan Format

For each selected file, include:

  • Current role: the file's apparent responsibility and why line count is a symptom.
  • Semantic pass: the exact symbol/reference/history inspection to run before moving code.
  • Split proposal: 2-5 target modules or files with responsibilities.
  • Migration order: small, reviewable steps that preserve public behavior.
  • Verification: narrow tests, type checks, builds, or smoke checks that prove the split.

Read the full file on GitHub · 80 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 10d ago First seen · 80 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A 2ac6250fe5c4

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large-file-refactor is a skill published in the GitHub repository PaulRBerg/agent-skills (70 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 782 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 2026-08-30.