github-issue-refactor-proposer

github-issue-refactor-proposer is a skill for Claude Code from richfrem/agent-plugins-skills. It costs 186 tokens per session (828 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A proposal-writing tool that turns related GitHub issue problems into one refactoring proposal for human review. GitHub issues are tracked reports of bugs, requests, or other repository work.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review recurring high-level architecture problems, combine related findings, and draft one proposal describing the pattern and its impact.
Why use it?
It prevents repeated symptoms from becoming a collection of unrelated fixes. It groups them around a likely architectural root cause while leaving branches, commits, and pull requests to people.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the dev-utils plugin — 19 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to review recurring high-level architecture problems, combine related findings, and draft one proposal describing the pattern and its impact.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/richfrem/agent-plugins-skills/github-issue-refactor-proposer
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 richfrem/agent-plugins-skills --skill github-issue-refactor-proposer
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/richfrem/agent-plugins-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install dev-utils, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 19 skills.

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Per session 186 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 828 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 $0.00186 $0.00828
Opus 5.5 $0.00074 $0.00331
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00037 $0.00166
Haiku 4.5 $0.00019 $0.00083

Measured 4d ago against content hash cf55a5afe61e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

github-issue-refactor-proposer 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.

plugins/dev-utils/skills/github-issue-refactor-proposer/SKILL.md · 77 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 77 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

GitHub Issue Refactor Proposer (github-issue-refactor-proposer)

Consumes friction hotspot reports and synthesizes systemic refactoring proposals for human review regarding recurring Tier 3 architecture friction.

Contents

Critical Constraints

  1. Synthesis Only: Never autonomously create git branches, write commits, or open pull requests.
  2. One Proposal Per Root Cause: Group findings by systemic pattern rather than creating omnibus proposals.
  3. Target Tier 3 Specifically: Focus on systemic architecture debt, recurring multi-component failures, and core design flaws.

Quick start

Inspect active friction hotspots and unresolved Tier 3 issues:

cat references/map-debt.md

Workflow

  1. Consume Hotspot Reports: Inspect friction cluster analysis and identified Tier 3 architectural debt.
  2. Consolidate Root Causes: Group related failure symptoms under a single root architectural deficiency.
  3. Draft Refactoring Proposal: Save proposal to temp/github-issue-refactor-proposal-<slug>.md detailing patterns and impact.
  4. Human Review Gate: Present proposal to the user and request explicit authorization before proceeding.
  5. Delegated Execution: Upon approval, hand off execution to PR lifecycle agents in isolated worktrees.
Skill Role Relation
github-issue-agent Logs friction and clusters it into hotspots Produces this skill's input
github-issue-prioritizer Ranks issues P0-P3 Ranks the issues a proposal covers
github-issue-resolution-reviewer Audits closed issues for recurrence Flags recurring friction that becomes a proposal
github-issue-worktree-agent Creates .worktrees/issue-NNN Workspace for an approved proposal
github-issue-pr-lifecycle-agent Issue to PR to closure Executes an approved proposal
github-issue-backlog-agent Promotes local tasks to issues Turns a proposal's follow-ups into issues

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 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 · 77 lines · 186 tokens per session scan A cf55a5afe61e

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github-issue-refactor-proposer is a skill published in the GitHub repository richfrem/agent-plugins-skills (7 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 186 tokens to every session and 828 once invoked, about $0.0007 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-10-16.

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