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refactor-clean from dzhng/duet-agent is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned
mdr add dzhng/duet-agent/refactor-clean@git:20261014.0781e46

Pins git:20261014.0781e46 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade
A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind
SKILL.md skill
Repository
dzhng/duet-agent
Path
.agents/skills/refactor-clean/SKILL.md
Versions recorded
7
Latest version
git:20261014.0781e46, committed Oct 14, 2026
First version recorded
Jul 8, 2026
Size
12,505 bytes
Repository stars
50
License
Apache-2.0

Refactor cleanly instead of layering sediment. Use for rename requests, stale or misleading names, legacy leftovers, changed scope, or when a change reveals duplicated concepts, local adapters, obsolete owners, redundant inputs or guards, compatibility wrappers, parallel abstractions, an over-large module that has accreted many responsibilities, or "just tack this on" pressure in any code area.

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

# Clean Refactoring

Replace the old shape with the simpler shape the codebase would want if it were
designed today. Refactoring is not adding a compatibility layer beside the problem;
it is moving ownership until every concept has exactly one clear home. That cuts
both ways: merging N duplicated owners into one, and splitting one over-loaded
module into the several owners it was hiding.

## Workflow

1. Sweep names in every touched path, even when no structural refactor is needed.
   Ask whether each name describes the concept's current scope. Rename misleading
   files, symbols, imported bindings and shared exports immediately; update every
   consumer, test, doc and agent instruction in the same pass. Keep scenario names
   only for scenario-specific code, then search again for stale references.
2. Name the concept that lacks one clear owner — duplicated across several owners,
   or several concepts fused into one over-loaded module. Identify the thing(s)
   that should each have one owner: environment, pricing rule, geometry source,
   state machine, data contract, renderer phase, API shape, UI state, or test
   oracle.
…

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How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint
mdr add dzhng/duet-agent/refactor-clean@sha256:fc7835430a0816ef

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261014.0781e46, 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 7 versions of this file, between Jul 8, 2026 and Oct 14, 2026, about one every 16 days.

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git:20261001.a17b4242026-10-01 a17b424 11,538 BA view · diff
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git:20260708.94557eb2026-07-08 94557eb 6,024 BA view · diff
git:20260708.f6fb4c42026-07-08 f6fb4c4 4,835 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (12505 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

GitHub

dzhng/duet-agent · 50 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_eybil5ao5sijriom
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=dzhng/duet-agent/refactor-clean
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/fc7835430a0816ef6721379753a63456f7b099fc329461560937a4b37d8dc375

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