improve-codebase-architecture

improve-codebase-architecture is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from romeo111/OpenOnco. It costs 68 tokens per session (1,255 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of improve-codebase-architecture, MIT.

A guided review for finding architecture improvements in a codebase, using the project's domain terms and architecture decision records. It focuses on making modules easier to test and easier for AI agents to navigate.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when looking for refactors, tightly coupled modules, or ways to make a codebase more testable and easier to understand.
Why use it?
It turns scattered architectural friction into concrete refactoring opportunities while keeping the project's agreed language consistent. The input does not describe a specific automatic code change.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Install

Getting it into your agent

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agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/romeo111/openonco/improve-codebase-architecture
Any agent
npx skills add romeo111/OpenOnco --skill improve-codebase-architecture
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/romeo111/OpenOnco

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,255 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin 72% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

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ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00068 $0.01255
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00628
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00251
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00126

Measured 4d ago against content hash 61f2a5a18e7b, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

improve-codebase-architecture 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.

Origin

This is a copy

72% identical to improve-codebase-architecture — 77 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/improve-codebase-architecture/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.

Improve Codebase Architecture

Surface architectural friction and propose deepening opportunities — refactors that turn shallow modules into deep ones. The aim is testability and AI-navigability.

Glossary

Use these terms exactly in every suggestion. Consistent language is the point — don't drift into "component," "service," "API," or "boundary." Full definitions in LANGUAGE.md.

  • Module — anything with an interface and an implementation (function, class, package, slice).
  • Interface — everything a caller must know to use the module: types, invariants, error modes, ordering, config. Not just the type signature.
  • Implementation — the code inside.
  • Depth — leverage at the interface: a lot of behaviour behind a small interface. Deep = high leverage. Shallow = interface nearly as complex as the implementation.
  • Seam — where an interface lives; a place behaviour can be altered without editing in place. (Use this, not "boundary.")
  • Adapter — a concrete thing satisfying an interface at a seam.
  • Leverage — what callers get from depth.
  • Locality — what maintainers get from depth: change, bugs, knowledge concentrated in one place.

Key principles (see LANGUAGE.md for the full list):

  • Deletion test: imagine deleting the module. If complexity vanishes, it was a pass-through. If complexity reappears across N callers, it was earning its keep.
  • The interface is the test surface.
  • One adapter = hypothetical seam. Two adapters = real seam.

This skill is informed by the project's domain model — CONTEXT.md and any docs/adr/. The domain language gives names to good seams; ADRs record decisions the skill should not re-litigate. See CONTEXT-FORMAT.md and ADR-FORMAT.md.

Process

1. Explore

Read existing documentation first:

  • CONTEXT.md (or CONTEXT-MAP.md + each CONTEXT.md in a multi-context repo)
  • Relevant ADRs in docs/adr/ (and any context-scoped docs/adr/ directories)

Read the full file on GitHub · 77 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 · 77 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 61f2a5a18e7b

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improve-codebase-architecture is a skill published in the GitHub repository romeo111/OpenOnco (2 stars, last pushed 5d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 1,255 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 72% identical to improve-codebase-architecture, differing in 77 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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