refactor SKILL.md skillA
refactor from reidemeister94/development-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add reidemeister94/development-skills/refactor@git:20260919.209fc66Pins git:20260919.209fc66 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- reidemeister94/development-skills
- Path
skills/refactor/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260919.209fc66, committed Sep 19, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 19, 2026
- Size
- 3,483 bytes
- Repository stars
- 12
- License
- MIT
Audit an existing project against its standards and apply selected improvements while preserving behavior.
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 Bring an existing project closer to its standards without changing user-visible behavior. This is the repository-convergence exception in the [development loop](../../shared/development-loop.md). It can inspect the whole target but can change only an approved tranche. `$ARGUMENTS` is a free-text focus, such as `database queries`, `src/orders`, or a planned feature. With a focus, audit that area and its required dependencies. Without one, audit the whole project. The audit is always read-only. The user chooses what to change afterwards. The audit changes nothing in the target. The frontmatter withholds write tools during the audit, but the rule holds even when the harness exposes them. ## 1. Audit Apply the loop's Standards gate and the [engineering contract](../../shared/engineering.md). Record the source paths you selected. Use focused owners where their signal exists: - `align-docs` in inspection-only mode for repository context and documentation; - `staff-review` for code quality inside the scope. Then inspect what these owners do not cover. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add reidemeister94/development-skills/refactor@sha256:428fb4e790acdcd4The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260919.209fc66, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_gixtamubwl2sfrsw)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Sep 19, 2026.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260919.209fc66 latest | 2026-09-19 | 209fc66 | 3,483 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260919.a9f7da5 | 2026-09-19 | a9f7da5 | 3,520 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 (3483 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
reidemeister94/development-skills · 12 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_gixtamubwl2sfrsw GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=reidemeister94/development-skills/refactor GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/428fb4e790acdcd40ea9314beabb4ef773e5fca1d5f0a2d9ad269134ee6915fd
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