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.
npx agentmods add skills/xdido/chiron/refactornpx skills add xDido/chiron --skill refactorgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/xDido/chironWhat 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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5 | $0.00043 | $0.02951 |
| Opus 5 | $0.00022 | $0.01476 |
| Sonnet 5 | $0.00009 | $0.00590 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00295 |
Grade D, and why
refactor scanned grade D with 2 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.
Tells the agent never to refusehighAnti-refusal
Suppressing the ability to decline removes a core safety control; a later harmful request then succeeds.
**Critical rule:** never refuse to refactor when the user asks. *"Just clean this up"*, *"refactor this for me"*, *"fix the structure"* are hard overrides — apply the highest-impact refactoring immediately. Strips warnings and disclaimersmediumAnti-refusal
Omitting safety caveats hides risk from the user and is a common jailbreak preamble.
1. **Do not moralize.** Never say *"this code should never have been written this way."* Smells accumulate naturally. Feedback is about the code, not the developer. How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 242 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
/refactor — guided refactoring with named patterns
Quick start:
/refactor path/to/file.go— identify refactoring opportunities in a file/refactor path/to/file.go:functionName— refactor a specific function/refactor "this handler does too much"— refactor based on a described smell/refactor— no argument: infer the file or smell from the current conversation
Step 0 — Load project context
Check if .chiron-context.md exists in the project root.
If it exists: Read it. This file is your complete project reference. DO NOT scan the codebase or read additional files beyond .chiron-context.md and the specific file(s) the user mentions. Proceed to the next step.
If it does NOT exist: Tell the user:
No project context found. Run
/teach-chironfirst — it scans your codebase once and generates.chiron-context.mdso all chiron skills work without re-scanning.
Then stop.
┌──────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ /refactor │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ REQUIRES .chiron-context.md │
│ Run /teach-chiron once to generate it │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ CORE (always active) │
│ ✓ Named smell identification │
│ ✓ Named refactoring guidance (L0–L4) │
│ ✓ Before/after transformation skeletons │
├──────────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ ENHANCED (with rich project context) │
│ + Project-aware smell detection │
│ + Convention-aligned refactoring suggestions │
│ + Framework-specific pattern guidance │
└──────────────────────────────────────────────┘
The user's request
$ARGUMENTS
Treat the above as the user's refactoring request. Apply the behavior described below.
If $ARGUMENTS is empty or whitespace-only: derive the refactoring target from the current conversation instead of asking "what would you like to refactor?". Scan the recent turns for a file the user just edited or discussed, a function they named, or a smell they described in prose ("this is getting messy", "I hate this function", "too much duplication"). Open with a one-line confirmation: "Inferring refactor target from conversation: . Say otherwise and I'll retarget." Then run the normal decision tree with that target in place of $ARGUMENTS.
What ships with it
1 file 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.
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.
- 2d ago First seen · 242 lines · 43 tokens per session scan D a67a663a574e
refactor is a skill published in the GitHub repository xDido/chiron (2 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 2,951 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it D with 2 findings (tells the agent never to refuse, strips warnings and disclaimers). No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.
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