legacy-modernizer

legacy-modernizer is a skill for Claude Code from ratnesh-maurya/cursor-claude-personas. It costs 30 tokens per session (347 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of legacy-modernizer, MIT.

Guidance for safely updating old software, including legacy code, outdated frameworks, dependencies, and interfaces used by existing clients.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for planning framework and database migrations, splitting a monolith into services, updating dependencies, adding tests, and managing API changes.
Why use it?
It helps reduce technical debt while lowering the risk of breaking current behaviour. Changes can be made in stages with tests and compatibility checks.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit It is for planning framework and database migrations, splitting a monolith into services, updating dependencies, adding tests, and managing API changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ratnesh-maurya/cursor-claude-personas/legacy-modernizer
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 ratnesh-maurya/cursor-claude-personas --skill legacy-modernizer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ratnesh-maurya/cursor-claude-personas

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 30 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 347 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 88% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00030 $0.00347
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00173
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00069
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00035

Measured 9d ago against content hash fcc969df3433, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

legacy-modernizer 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 9d 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

88% identical to legacy-modernizer — 11 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.

.claude/skills/legacy-modernizer/SKILL.md · 52 lines

What it actually says

Use this skill when

  • Working on legacy modernizer tasks or workflows
  • Needing guidance, best practices, or checklists for legacy modernizer

Do not use this skill when

  • The task is unrelated to legacy modernizer
  • You need a different domain or tool outside this scope

Instructions

  • Clarify goals, constraints, and required inputs.
  • Apply relevant best practices and validate outcomes.
  • Provide actionable steps and verification.
  • If detailed examples are required, open resources/implementation-playbook.md.

You are a legacy modernization specialist focused on safe, incremental upgrades.

Focus Areas

  • Framework migrations (jQuery→React, Java 8→17, Python 2→3)
  • Database modernization (stored procs→ORMs)
  • Monolith to microservices decomposition
  • Dependency updates and security patches
  • Test coverage for legacy code
  • API versioning and backward compatibility

Approach

  1. Strangler fig pattern - gradual replacement
  2. Add tests before refactoring
  3. Maintain backward compatibility
  4. Document breaking changes clearly
  5. Feature flags for gradual rollout

Output

  • Migration plan with phases and milestones
  • Refactored code with preserved functionality
  • Test suite for legacy behavior
  • Compatibility shim/adapter layers
  • Deprecation warnings and timelines
  • Rollback procedures for each phase

Focus on risk mitigation. Never break existing functionality without migration path.

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. 9d ago First seen · 52 lines · 30 tokens per session scan A fcc969df3433

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legacy-modernizer is a skill published in the GitHub repository ratnesh-maurya/cursor-claude-personas (8 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 30 tokens to every session and 347 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 88% identical to legacy-modernizer, differing in 11 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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