refactor skillA
refactor is agent-read markdown (skill) from ahgraber/skills: Use when changing the structure of working code without changing its behavior: decomposing an oversized function, extracting or merging a module, collapsing a layer, breaking an import cycle. Applies when the edit is structural enough to need a plan and explicit approval before it lands. Triggers: 'refactor this', 'decompose this function', 'split this module', 'break this dependency cycle', 'extract this into', 'restructure', 'work through the deferred items'. Not for slop cleanup (use simplify.
Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.
How to install
mdr add ahgraber/skills/refactor@git:20260819.209d97bmdr add ahgraber/skills/refactor@sha256:183b170fdc69b744Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_hcnizlw2mpga7fsv)
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Versions
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| git:20260819.209d97b latest | 2026-08-19 | 209d97b | 9,556 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260819.8c8e388 | 2026-08-19 | 8c8e388 | 9,352 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260816.2905688 | 2026-08-16 | 2905688 | 9,352 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260808.eb5c83b | 2026-08-08 | eb5c83b | 9,374 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 (9556 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
ahgraber/skills · 5 stars · license CC0-1.0 · pushed 2026-09-10 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_hcnizlw2mpga7fsv GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ahgraber/skills/refactor GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/183b170fdc69b7441120ee287b8bf6947672cfdcf920a972c65b0c9a37e1b941
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