refactor-solo-maintenance SKILL.md skillA
refactor-solo-maintenance from lstr-1/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add lstr-1/skills/refactor-solo-maintenance@git:20260807.6f46eeaPins git:20260807.6f46eea in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- lstr-1/skills
- Path
refactor-solo-maintenance/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260807.6f46eea, committed Aug 7, 2026
- Size
- 18,846 bytes
- Repository stars
- 2
- License
- none declared
Produces a measured, RICE-ranked refactoring plan plus a machine-readable backlog that drives a solo developer's repository toward ~1 active maintenance month per year. Invoke when analyzing an existing codebase, GitHub Actions pipeline, AI-agent configuration, or maintenance cadence for refactoring opportunities, when maintenance load must be reduced to a fixed annual budget, or when refactors must be prioritized by effort and impact. Triggers on "refactor my workflow…
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-solo-maintenance Audits an existing repository across four domains — codebase architecture, GitHub Actions CI/CD, AI-agent integration, and maintenance cadence — then emits a RICE-ranked refactoring plan and a machine-readable backlog reconciled against a hard annual maintenance budget of ~160 hours (~1 active month per year). ## When to Use - A solo developer wants to reduce recurring maintenance load on an existing repository to a fixed annual budget. - Existing CI/CD workflows, module boundaries, or agent configuration must be evaluated for automation and delegation opportunities. - A refactoring backlog exists but is unprioritized, and quick wins must be sequenced ahead of architectural surgery. - Maintenance time must be quantified and defended against a target rather than estimated by intuition. ## When NOT to Use - Do NOT use for greenfield repositories. There is no baseline to measure, so every finding would be fabricated. - Do NOT use to implement refactors. This skill produces a plan and a backlog; execution is a separate, explicitly requested task. - Do NOT use for single-PR review, syntax questions, or mechanical renames. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add lstr-1/skills/refactor-solo-maintenance@sha256:f0c30e3d9dc08a1aThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260807.6f46eea, 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 1 version of this file, committed on Aug 7, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
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- 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
lstr-1/skills · 2 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_e4f3ullmstuu77vb GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=lstr-1/skills/refactor-solo-maintenance GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/f0c30e3d9dc08a1ac93876fbf78a1aae34cecfa3f0321dd12cff2f4770b06127
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