refactoring-patterns is agent-read markdown (skill) from kunanonj/ai-skills-hub: Apply named refactoring transformations to improve code structure without changing behavior. Use when the user mentions "refactor this", "code smells", "extract method", "replace conditional", "technical debt", "move method", "inline variable", or "decompose conditional". Also trigger when cleaning up legacy code, preparing code for new features by restructuring, or identifying which transformation to apply to a specific code smell. Covers smell-driven refactoring, safe transformation sequences,.
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# Refactoring Patterns Framework
A disciplined approach to improving the internal structure of existing code without changing its observable behavior. Every refactoring follows the same loop: verify tests pass, apply one small structural change, verify tests still pass.
## Core Principle
**Refactoring is not rewriting. It is a sequence of small, behavior-preserving transformations, each backed by tests.** You never change what the code does — only how it is organized. Big-bang rewrites fail because they combine structural change with behavioral change, making it impossible to know which broke things.
**The foundation:** Bad code is a natural consequence of delivering under time pressure, not a character flaw. Code smells are objective signals of degraded structure; the smell catalog tells you *where* to look, and the refactoring catalog tells you *what to do*.
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