rustyrazorblade/skills · plugins/dev-skills/skills/refactor/SKILL.md

refactor skillA

refactor is agent-read markdown (skill) from rustyrazorblade/skills: Plan and execute a behavior-preserving structural change, then hold the refactoring contract for the whole run. Use this skill when the user says "refactor this", "clean up this code", "restructure", "extract this", "split this up", "pay down tech debt", or "the tests are fighting me"; when the work is a `type:tech-debt` issue; or at the REFACTOR step of a TDD cycle. It produces a written plan for the owner to approve before anything is deleted or moved, and it governs every failing test after t.

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

Latest version
mdr add rustyrazorblade/skills/refactor@git:20260826.33297a2
Exact content
mdr add rustyrazorblade/skills/refactor@sha256:61a8f5dd6d484453

Pin 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.

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Versions

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git:20260826.33297a2 latest2026-08-26 33297a2 7,665 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, 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 (7665 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

rustyrazorblade/skills · 43 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-09-16 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_laygz7rfxe7lbiqm
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=rustyrazorblade/skills/refactor
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/61a8f5dd6d4844531c25a59d0fff42def38301f0d910af11e1e60b96a95addb7

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