ca-refactor SKILL.md skillA
ca-refactor from arbiterforge/codearbiter is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add arbiterforge/codearbiter/ca-refactor@git:20261025.6e96d09Pins git:20261025.6e96d09 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- arbiterforge/codearbiter
- Path
plugins/ca-codex/skills/ca-refactor/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 10
- Latest version
- git:20261025.6e96d09, committed Oct 25, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 12, 2026
- Size
- 11,631 bytes
- Repository stars
- 152
- License
- AGPL-3.0
Restructure code without changing observable behavior: rename, extract, inline, move, deduplicate, or replace an internal implementation with an equivalent one. Prove parity through unchanged pre-existing tests. Not for new behavior, bug fixes, explanation-only questions, or committing finished work.
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
# refactor Select this owning procedure for a behavior-preserving restructure, whether requested in plain language or through `/refactor`. Entry syntax is not an additional gate; the authorized scope, parity, and verification requirements below still apply. Externally observable behavior before equals after, proven rather than assumed. ## Entry boundaries - Identify both the surface and the motivation. Phase 1 owns the precise surface table under existing authorization. Ask only about a missing consequential scope decision. - New behavior, including a new error path, side effect, or public method beyond a Phase 3 seam, belongs to `/feature`. Incorrect existing behavior belongs to `/fix`. - An explanation-only question stays in the non-mutating question-answer path, not this editing procedure and not a required help-command detour. - Persisting an already-completed refactor belongs to the existing commit owner at [routines/commit-gate/SKILL.md](../../routines/commit-gate/SKILL.md), with its actual authorization and gates. No commit, push, or PR is implied merely by entering this refactor procedure. ## Pre-flight …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add arbiterforge/codearbiter/ca-refactor@sha256:5cc9b0f6def28ef2The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261025.6e96d09, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 10 versions of this file, between Jul 12, 2026 and Oct 25, 2026, about one every 12 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261025.6e96d09 latest | 2026-10-25 | 6e96d09 | 11,631 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261018.4414905 | 2026-10-18 | 4414905 | 11,343 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261016.79d996f | 2026-10-16 | 79d996f | 10,864 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261016.a9f63fc | 2026-10-16 | a9f63fc | 10,574 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260926.2c7bcea | 2026-09-26 | 2c7bcea | 10,369 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260925.b075a61 | 2026-09-25 | b075a61 | 9,968 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260915.43b1504 | 2026-09-15 | 43b1504 | 2,558 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260830.00ec49f | 2026-08-30 | 00ec49f | 2,357 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260808.362892a | 2026-08-08 | 362892a | 2,338 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260712.eee3949 | 2026-07-12 | eee3949 | 2,290 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 (11631 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
arbiterforge/codearbiter · 152 stars · license AGPL-3.0 · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_6qqtpstjqiyq2rxj GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=arbiterforge/codearbiter/ca-refactor GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5cc9b0f6def28ef28f4719b1b8eba5fc265c854b1bbad611fda06a6c9cc96172
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