refactor-safely

refactor-safely is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from thangchung/agent-engineering-experiment. It costs 15 tokens per session (279 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A refactoring workflow that uses dependency information to plan changes, preview renames, find unused code, and check the result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to find dead code, identify oversized functions, preview and apply renames, and check affected program paths after refactoring.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of breaking code that depends on the part being changed, especially during large edits or renames.

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/thangchung/agent-engineering-experiment/refactor-safely
Any agent
npx skills add thangchung/agent-engineering-experiment --skill refactor-safely
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/thangchung/agent-engineering-experiment

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 15 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 279 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 $0.00015 $0.00279
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00139
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00056
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00028

Measured 4d ago against content hash ab9d9f653e75, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

refactor-safely 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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

agentgateway-entraid-obo/.claude/skills/refactor-safely/SKILL.md · 29 lines

What it actually says

Refactor Safely

Use the knowledge graph to plan and execute refactoring with confidence.

Steps

  1. Use refactor_tool with mode="suggest" for community-driven refactoring suggestions.
  2. Use refactor_tool with mode="dead_code" to find unreferenced code.
  3. For renames, use refactor_tool with mode="rename" to preview all affected locations.
  4. Use apply_refactor_tool with the refactor_id to apply renames.
  5. After changes, run detect_changes_tool to verify the refactoring impact.

Safety Checks

  • Always preview before applying (rename mode gives you an edit list).
  • Check get_impact_radius_tool before major refactors.
  • Use get_affected_flows_tool to ensure no critical paths are broken.
  • Run find_large_functions to identify decomposition targets.

Token Efficiency Rules

  • ALWAYS start with get_minimal_context(task="<your task>") before any other graph tool.
  • Use detail_level="minimal" on all calls. Only escalate to "standard" when minimal is insufficient.
  • Target: complete any review/debug/refactor task in ≤5 tool calls and ≤800 total output tokens.
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 · 29 lines · 15 tokens per session scan A ab9d9f653e75

Subscribe to this mod's changes

refactor-safely is a skill published in the GitHub repository thangchung/agent-engineering-experiment (24 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 15 tokens to every session and 279 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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