cocosearch-refactoring

cocosearch-refactoring is a skill for Claude Code from VioletCranberry/coco-search. It costs 47 tokens per session (2,956 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A refactoring workflow for safely changing code structure with CocoSearch, a semantic code-search tool. It maps affected code before changes and guides the work in confirmed steps.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan and carry out code refactors, such as moving code into a new module, renaming symbols across a codebase, or breaking up a large file.
Why use it?
It reduces the risk of missing dependencies when renaming code, extracting a module, or splitting a large file. You get a fuller view of what a change may affect before editing.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the cocosearch plugin — 12 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to plan and carry out code refactors, such as moving code into a new module, renaming symbols across a codebase, or breaking up a large file.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/violetcranberry/coco-search/cocosearch-refactoring
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add VioletCranberry/coco-search --skill cocosearch-refactoring
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/VioletCranberry/coco-search

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cocosearch, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills.

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Per session 47 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,956 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. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 1 finding, up to high

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • high Anti-Refusal · line 32
    Skill instructs the agent to omit warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Stripping safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.
    Fix: Remove instructions that suppress warnings, disclaimers, or ethical commentary. Let the agent surface safety-relevant caveats to the user.
How audits are shown
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 $0.00047 $0.02956
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.01478
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00591
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00296

Measured 9d ago against content hash ddd2fdcd897d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cocosearch-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 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.

skills/cocosearch-refactoring/SKILL.md · 348 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 348 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

CocoRefactoring Skill

A systematic workflow for safe code refactoring. This skill guides you through complete impact analysis using semantic search, then executes changes step-by-step with your confirmation at each gate.

Philosophy: Refactoring on incomplete information is risky. This workflow ensures you see the full picture before touching any code.

Pre-flight Check

  1. Resolve index name (use the resolved name for all operations):
    • Try cocosearch.yaml for indexName field -- if found, use it
    • If no config file, call list_indexes() and match the current project's directory name against available indexes. The MCP tools auto-derive index names from directory paths (e.g., my-project/ -> my_project), so a match is likely if the repo was indexed without a config file.
    • If no match found, the project is genuinely not indexed -- indexing is REQUIRED. Refactoring needs 100% accurate dependency data. Do NOT abandon CocoSearch tools just because cocosearch.yaml is missing.
  2. list_indexes() to confirm project is indexed
  3. index_stats(index_name="<resolved-name>") to check freshness
  • Stale (>7 days) → strongly recommend reindexing. Stale data can miss critical dependencies.
  1. Check dependency freshness — call get_file_dependencies on the target file (or any known file):

    get_file_dependencies(file="<target-file>", depth=1)
    
    • If response contains warnings with type deps_outdated or deps_branch_drift: Strongly recommend re-extracting. Refactoring on stale dependency data risks missing affected files. "Dependency data is outdated. I strongly recommend re-extracting before proceeding. Want me to run dependency extraction? (index_codebase with extract_deps=True)"
    • If response contains warnings with type deps_not_extracted: "No dependency data found. I'll fall back to search-based impact analysis, but dependency data provides more reliable coverage. Want me to extract dependencies first?"
    • If no warnings: Proceed with dependency-based impact analysis.
  2. Linked index health (if cocosearch.yaml has linkedIndexes):

    • Check the warnings array from index_stats() for entries starting with "Linked index"
    • If stale/missing: warn user — "Linked index 'X' is stale/missing. Cross-project impact analysis may miss affected files. Want me to reindex?"

Read the full file on GitHub · 348 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. 9d ago First seen · 348 lines · 47 tokens per session scan A ddd2fdcd897d

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cocosearch-refactoring is a skill published in the GitHub repository VioletCranberry/coco-search (37 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 47 tokens to every session and 2,956 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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