refactor-modernize

refactor-modernize is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from QuentinHsu/skills. It costs 153 tokens per session (844 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for updating old code to use newer language features and common conventions while keeping its behavior the same.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when replacing callbacks with async/await, modernizing loops and syntax, tightening variable scope, or adopting newer standard-library features.
Why use it?
It helps replace outdated or verbose code without changing what the program does, making the result easier to maintain.

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/quentinhsu/skills/modernize
Any agent
npx skills add QuentinHsu/skills --skill modernize
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/QuentinHsu/skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 153 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 844 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 $0.00153 $0.00844
Opus 5 $0.00077 $0.00422
Sonnet 5 $0.00031 $0.00169
Haiku 4.5 $0.00015 $0.00084

Measured 4d ago against content hash 515d7b377639, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

refactor-modernize 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 4d 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.

skills/refactor/modernize/SKILL.md · 59 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 59 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Refactor Modernize

Replace legacy patterns and outdated idioms with current language features and conventions — applicable to any language or project.

Detailed rules live in:

Core Principle

Modernization replaces how code expresses its intent, not what it does. The observable behavior stays the same; the implementation moves to current best practice.

When To Use

Use this skill when the task involves:

  • replacing callbacks, event emitters, or manual promise chains with async/await
  • replacing verbose loops with modern iteration (for-of, iterators, comprehensions, streams)
  • adopting destructuring, pattern matching, optional chaining, or nullish coalescing
  • converting var to let/const, or equivalent scope-tightening in other languages
  • replacing class-heavy OOP with simpler functional or data-oriented patterns when the language supports it
  • adopting new standard library APIs that replace third-party utilities (e.g., structuredClone, Object.groupBy, Array.at)
  • applying new edition or version features (Rust editions, Python 3.10+ match, Go generics, C# records)
  • replacing hand-rolled utilities with language built-ins

Working Mode

  1. Identify baseline. Determine the project's target language version / runtime version from config files (tsconfig, pyproject, go.mod, Cargo.toml, etc.).
  2. Scan for legacy patterns. Look for patterns that have a modern equivalent in the target version.
  3. Apply language feature rules. Replace syntax-level legacy patterns. See rules/language-features.md.
  4. Apply async and concurrency rules. Modernize asynchronous code and concurrency primitives. See rules/async-concurrency.md.
  5. Apply idiom rules. Replace outdated conventions with current idiomatic patterns. See rules/idioms.md.
  6. Verify. Run tests. Modern syntax should produce identical behavior — any test failure signals a semantic mismatch, not just a style issue.

Read the full file on GitHub · 59 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. 4d ago First seen · 59 lines · 153 tokens per session scan A 515d7b377639

Subscribe to this mod's changes

refactor-modernize is a skill published in the GitHub repository QuentinHsu/skills (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 153 tokens to every session and 844 once invoked, about $0.0008 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 2026-08-31.

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