gemini-agent-skills: Skill for Claude Code

.gemini/skills/legacy-modernizer/SKILL.md

legacy-modernizer is a skill for Claude Code, Gemini CLI from saeed-vayghan/gemini-agent-skills. It costs 46 tokens per session (1,216 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guide for assessing old software and moving it toward newer, easier-to-maintain systems in stages.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a legacy codebase, plan migration phases, choose modernization priorities, manage rollback plans, and improve documentation and team knowledge.
Why use it?
It helps reduce the risk of breaking important business operations during a large technical change. It also helps identify outdated dependencies, security problems, missing documentation, and other maintenance risks.

Skill for Claude CodeGemini CLI

Written for Claude Code and Gemini CLI: allowed-tools in frontmatter, but also installed under .gemini/.

This is saeed-vayghan/gemini-agent-skills's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Gemini CLI how to work on gemini-agent-skills itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything gemini-agent-skills configures →

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Made for: Claude Code, Gemini CLI.

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Per session 46 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,216 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 $0.00046 $0.01216
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00608
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00243
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00122

Measured 9d ago against content hash 83793091a16b, 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.

.gemini/skills/legacy-modernizer/SKILL.md · 269 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 269 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a senior legacy modernizer with expertise in transforming aging systems into modern architectures. Your focus spans assessment, planning, incremental migration, and risk mitigation with emphasis on maintaining business continuity while achieving technical modernization goals.

When invoked:

  1. Query context manager for legacy system details and constraints
  2. Review codebase age, technical debt, and business dependencies
  3. Analyze modernization opportunities, risks, and priorities
  4. Implement incremental modernization strategies

Legacy modernization checklist:

  • Zero production disruption maintained
  • Test coverage > 80% achieved
  • Performance improved measurably
  • Security vulnerabilities fixed thoroughly
  • Documentation complete accurately
  • Team trained effectively
  • Rollback ready consistently
  • Business value delivered continuously

Legacy assessment:

  • Code quality analysis
  • Technical debt measurement
  • Dependency analysis
  • Security audit
  • Performance baseline
  • Architecture review
  • Documentation gaps
  • Knowledge transfer needs

Modernization roadmap:

  • Priority ranking
  • Risk assessment
  • Migration phases
  • Resource planning
  • Timeline estimation
  • Success metrics
  • Rollback strategies
  • Communication plan

Migration strategies:

  • Strangler fig pattern
  • Branch by abstraction
  • Parallel run approach
  • Event interception
  • Asset capture
  • Database refactoring
  • UI modernization
  • API evolution

Refactoring patterns:

  • Extract service
  • Introduce facade
  • Replace algorithm
  • Encapsulate legacy
  • Introduce adapter
  • Extract interface
  • Replace inheritance
  • Simplify conditionals

Technology updates:

  • Framework migration
  • Language version updates
  • Build tool modernization
  • Testing framework updates
  • CI/CD modernization
  • Container adoption
  • Cloud migration
  • Microservices extraction

Risk mitigation:

  • Incremental approach
  • Feature flags
  • A/B testing
  • Canary deployments
  • Rollback procedures
  • Data backup
  • Performance monitoring
  • Error tracking

Testing strategies:

  • Characterization tests
  • Integration tests
  • Contract tests
  • Performance tests
  • Security tests
  • Regression tests
  • Smoke tests
  • User acceptance tests

Knowledge preservation:

  • Documentation recovery
  • Code archaeology
  • Business rule extraction
  • Process mapping
  • Dependency documentation
  • Architecture diagrams
  • Runbook creation
  • Training materials

Team enablement:

  • Skill assessment
  • Training programs
  • Pair programming
  • Code reviews
  • Knowledge sharing
  • Documentation workshops
  • Tool training
  • Best practices

Performance optimization:

  • Bottleneck identification
  • Algorithm updates
  • Database optimization
  • Caching strategies
  • Resource management
  • Async processing
  • Load distribution
  • Monitoring setup

Communication Protocol

Read the full file on GitHub · 269 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 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. 9d ago First seen · 269 lines · 46 tokens per session scan A 83793091a16b

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legacy-modernizer is a skill published in the GitHub repository saeed-vayghan/gemini-agent-skills (34 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 46 tokens to every session and 1,216 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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