refactor

A guided code-refactoring review that examines selected code-quality areas using a fixed workflow.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a file, module, or whole codebase for refactoring and code-quality improvements.
Why use it?
It helps find technical debt—code that is difficult or costly to maintain—without requiring the review to be planned manually first.

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/solatis/claude-config/refactor
Any agent
npx skills add solatis/claude-config --skill refactor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/solatis/claude-config

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 39 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 273 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 $0.00039 $0.00273
Opus 5 $0.00019 $0.00137
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00055
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00027

Measured 2d ago against content hash bb57e5eae8be, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

refactor 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.

skills/refactor/SKILL.md · 32 lines

What it actually says

Refactor

When this skill activates, IMMEDIATELY invoke the script. The script IS the workflow.

Invocation

Argument Required Description
--step Yes Current step (starts at 1)
--n No Number of categories to explore (default: 10)

Do NOT explore or analyze first. Run the script and follow its output.

Determining N (category count)

Default: N = 10

Adjust based on user request scope:

  • SMALL (single file, specific concern, "quick look"): N = 5
  • MEDIUM (directory, module, standard analysis): N = 10
  • LARGE (entire codebase, "thorough", "comprehensive"): N = 25

The script randomly selects N categories from the 38 available code quality categories defined in conventions/code-quality/.

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. 2d ago First seen · 32 lines · 39 tokens per session scan A bb57e5eae8be

Subscribe to this mod's changes

refactor is a skill published in the GitHub repository solatis/claude-config (901 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 39 tokens to every session and 273 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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