cc-refactoring-guidance

cc-refactoring-guidance is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from ryanthedev/code-foundations. It costs 94 tokens per session (1,266 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A coding guide for changing existing code safely without mixing refactoring with bug fixes. Refactoring means improving code structure while keeping its behavior the same.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when cleaning up difficult code, deciding how to replace a flawed implementation, or splitting risky changes into separate small commits.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of hiding a bug inside a large cleanup or making too many changes at once. It also helps decide whether to refactor, rewrite, or fix a problem before restructuring the code.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the code-foundations plugin — 22 skills, 4 commands, 2 agents shipped together

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/ryanthedev/code-foundations/cc-refactoring-guidance
Any agent
npx skills add ryanthedev/code-foundations --skill cc-refactoring-guidance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ryanthedev/code-foundations

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install code-foundations, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 22 skills, 4 commands, 2 agents.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for cc-refactoring-guidance

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/ryanthedev/code-foundations/cc-refactoring-guidance"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/ryanthedev/code-foundations/cc-refactoring-guidance.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 94 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,266 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00094 $0.01266
Opus 5 $0.00047 $0.00633
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00253
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00127

Measured 5d ago against content hash 99a9e4aefee0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cc-refactoring-guidance 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 5d 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/cc-refactoring-guidance/SKILL.md · 93 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 5d ago First seen · 93 lines · 94 tokens per session scan A 99a9e4aefee0

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cc-refactoring-guidance is a skill published in the GitHub repository ryanthedev/code-foundations (369 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), with no licence file. It adds 94 tokens to every session and 1,266 once invoked, about $0.0005 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.

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