refactor

refactor is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from vstorm-co/pydantic-deepagents. It costs 12 tokens per session (251 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code-cleanup workflow for improving a program’s internal structure while keeping its external behavior unchanged.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to split large functions, remove repeated code, improve names, simplify conditionals, group related code, and reduce circular dependencies.
Why use it?
It reduces tangled, duplicated, or hard-to-follow code without mixing cleanup with new features. Tests help confirm that the program still works the same way.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to split large functions, remove repeated code, improve names, simplify conditionals, group related code, and reduce circular dependencies.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/vstorm-co/pydantic-deepagents/refactor
About the project

Pydantic Deep Agents is a self-hosted terminal AI assistant and Python framework for building coding, research, and other AI agents. It gives agents tools such as file access, shell commands, planning, memory, sub-agents, sandboxed execution, and MCP connections, and supports different models.

vstorm-co/pydantic-deepagents · 1,106 stars · on GitHub · vstorm-co.github.io

Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add vstorm-co/pydantic-deepagents --skill refactor
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vstorm-co/pydantic-deepagents

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 12 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 251 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00012 $0.00251
Opus 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00100
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00002 $0.00050
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00025

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 6838d73006df, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 1mo 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.

apps/cli/skills/refactor/SKILL.md · 45 lines

What it actually says

Refactor

Improve code structure without changing external behavior.

Process

  1. Understand — Read all related code, run existing tests
  2. Plan — Identify what to change and why
  3. Execute — Make changes incrementally
  4. Verify — Run tests after each change

Common Refactoring Patterns

Extract

  • Long function → smaller focused functions
  • Repeated code → shared helper
  • Magic numbers → named constants

Simplify

  • Deep nesting → early returns / guard clauses
  • Complex conditionals → descriptive functions
  • Large classes → smaller focused classes

Rename

  • Unclear names → descriptive names
  • Inconsistent naming → consistent conventions

Reorganize

  • Related functions scattered → grouped in modules
  • Circular dependencies → dependency inversion

Rules

  • Never change behavior — tests must pass before and after
  • One refactoring type per commit
  • If tests don't exist, write them first
  • Don't refactor and add features in the same change
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. 1mo ago First seen · 45 lines · 12 tokens per session scan A 6838d73006df

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refactor is a skill published in the GitHub repository vstorm-co/pydantic-deepagents (1,106 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 12 tokens to every session and 251 once invoked, about $0.0000 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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