python-refactoring

A Python code review and refactoring assistant that combines checks for complexity, dead code, security, outdated patterns, dependencies, and missing tests.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect Python files or packages, find overly long functions, get extraction guidance, check test coverage, and return machine-readable results.
Why use it?
It brings several separate code-health checks into one analysis workflow before code is changed.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/slamer59/mcp-python-refactoring/skill
Any agent
npx skills add slamer59/mcp-python-refactoring --skill skill
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/slamer59/mcp-python-refactoring

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 42 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 936 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00042 $0.00936
Opus 5 $0.00021 $0.00468
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00187
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00094

Measured 2d ago against content hash 8dd418420edc, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

python-refactoring 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 2d 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.

src/mcp_refactoring_assistant/skill/SKILL.md · 96 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 96 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Python Refactoring Assistant

This project ships python-refactor-cli, a CLI that wraps rope, radon, vulture, pyrefly, mccabe, complexipy, bandit, pip-audit, and refurb into one set of refactoring-analysis commands. Use it whenever you are about to refactor, review, or assess the health of Python code in this repository.

Primary usage: CLI

Prefer running the CLI directly via subprocess (e.g. the Bash tool) over starting the MCP server for one-off analysis — it's faster and cheaper:

uv run python-refactor-cli <command> --format json ...

Every analysis command supports --format json for machine-parseable output. Run uv run python-refactor-cli <command> --help for full option details.

Command reference

Command Target Use it to...
analyze <file> file Full refactoring analysis of a single file
find-long-functions <file> [-t N] file Find functions at/over N lines (candidates for extraction)
extraction-guidance <file> [-fn NAME] file Get step-by-step guidance for extracting a specific function
test-coverage <source> [-t tests/] file/dir Find files/functions missing test coverage
tdd-guidance <file> [-fn NAME] file Get Red-Green-Refactor guidance for a function
security-scan <file> file Scan for security vulnerabilities, vulnerable deps, and outdated patterns
analyze-package <path> package/dir Full structural analysis of a package
package-metrics <path> package/dir Complexity, cohesion, coupling, health score
package-issues <path> package/dir Structural issues (god package, circular deps, etc.)
package-dependencies <path> package/dir Dependency graph and circular-dependency detection

Example:

uv run python-refactor-cli find-long-functions src/app.py --line-threshold 30 --format json
{
  "total_functions_analyzed": 12,
  "long_functions_found": 2,
  "line_threshold": 30,
  "functions": [
    {"name": "process_order", "start_line": 40, "end_line": 95, "length": 56, "location": "lines 40-95"}
  ]
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 96 lines

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. 2d ago First seen · 96 lines · 42 tokens per session scan A 8dd418420edc

Subscribe to this mod's changes

python-refactoring is a skill published in the GitHub repository slamer59/mcp-python-refactoring (13 stars, last pushed 7d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 42 tokens to every session and 936 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 2026-08-30.

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