guiding-refactoring-with-code-health SKILL.md skillA
guiding-refactoring-with-code-health from cratis/ai is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add cratis/ai/guiding-refactoring-with-code-health@git:20261026.fc845e3Pins git:20261026.fc845e3 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- cratis/ai
- Path
.cratis/ai/skills/guiding-refactoring-with-code-health/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- git:20261026.fc845e3, committed Oct 26, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 10, 2026
- Size
- 2,909 bytes
- Repository stars
- 4
- License
- MIT
Use when planning measured structural refactoring for complexity, size, cohesion or nesting in a CodeScene-enabled, opted-in repository. Not for pre-commit safeguards or portfolio debt ranking.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
<!-- Modified by Cratis from CodeScene AB's original (Apache-2.0): added profile guard, policy note, license field and this notice. Upstream: https://github.com/codescene-oss/codescene-mcp-server (skills/guiding-refactoring-with-code-health/SKILL.md; see NOTICE) --> # Guiding Refactoring With Code Health Use only in repositories that opted into `cratis/codescene` and have CodeScene MCP tools available; otherwise skip without blocking and say so. The Cratis policy in `.cratis/ai/rules/codescene.md` overrides this skill where they differ. ## Overview Use Code Health as the control signal for refactoring. The agent should first understand why a file is hard to work with, establish a measurable baseline, then improve it in small structural steps and verify that each step helped. The goal is not just cleaner code, but code that is easier for both humans and agents to understand and modify safely. ## When to Use - A file is hard to read, risky to change, or repeatedly attracts defects. - The user asks for refactoring help and wants an objective way to measure progress. - A safeguard or review points to complexity, size, low cohesion, or deep nesting. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add cratis/ai/guiding-refactoring-with-code-health@sha256:0ff641c17ed4ccd9The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261026.fc845e3, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_5fla372qaof53mqd)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 5 versions of this file, between Oct 10, 2026 and Oct 26, 2026, about one every 4 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20261026.fc845e3 latest | 2026-10-26 | fc845e3 | 2,909 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261017.0e2246a | 2026-10-17 | 0e2246a | 3,154 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261013.615e6a9 | 2026-10-13 | 615e6a9 | 2,963 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261010.7087017 | 2026-10-10 | 7087017 | 2,995 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261010.e2ba680 | 2026-10-10 | e2ba680 | 2,423 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (2909 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
cratis/ai · 4 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5fla372qaof53mqd GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=cratis/ai/guiding-refactoring-with-code-health GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0ff641c17ed4ccd99597b2f5724c37ace9e1d89961f70c0895b01c463f7fa643
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