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agent-refactoring-workflow from amey-thakur/ai-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
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- SKILL.md skill
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- MIT
Direct an agent through a refactor in verifiable steps with tests as the safety net, rather than one large rewrite. Use when restructuring code with agent assistance.
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
# Agent refactoring workflow Agents are effective at mechanical restructuring and prone to changing behaviour while doing it. Working in verified steps is what keeps a refactor a refactor rather than an unreviewable rewrite. ## Method 1. **Establish test coverage first.** Refactoring without tests is rewriting and hoping, and the agent should add characterisation tests before changing anything (see refactoring). 2. **State the target structure.** What the code should look like afterwards, since an agent asked to improve it will change things you did not want changed. 3. **Work in small verified steps.** One transformation, run the tests, commit. Large refactors in one turn are unreviewable and hard to bisect (see pull-request-size). 4. **Forbid behaviour changes explicitly.** Say that the refactor must preserve behaviour exactly, and treat any behaviour change as a separate commit (see negative-instructions). 5. **Review the diff yourself.** Agent refactors touch many files, and an unreviewed large diff is where unintended changes hide. 6. **Keep tests untouched during the refactor.** Changing tests and …
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How to install
mdr add amey-thakur/ai-skills/agent-refactoring-workflow@sha256:706bd6c1303c58bdThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260728.819a393, 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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Source
amey-thakur/ai-skills · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_dtya5ndb5rxnbr4w GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=amey-thakur/ai-skills/agent-refactoring-workflow GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/706bd6c1303c58bddc0525529dc2b51423641be2b3335f01c64fb1ba0608a5a8
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