propose-refactor SKILL.md skillA
propose-refactor from nicholas-greenwood/agentic-engineering-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add nicholas-greenwood/agentic-engineering-skills/propose-refactor@git:20261105.5786e71Pins git:20261105.5786e71 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- nicholas-greenwood/agentic-engineering-skills
- Path
propose-refactor/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261105.5786e71, committed Nov 5, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 27, 2026
- Size
- 4,593 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
propose a refactor plan for an 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
propose how to make an area simpler, more straightforward and robust, and refactor away traces of growing pains. this skill ends at the plan; implementation is a separate request if no area was given, ask "What area is in scope?" and wait for the answer the area is the centre of the sweep, not a fence: follow a finding into callers, shared code or contracts when the fix needs it, and say where it crosses the line when you are sure it is the right thing, contracts, API responses and behaviour are open to change; every point that changes behaviour states the before and after, and the entry points it affects sub-agents leave this checkout untouched: the mapper writes only `map.md`, the tests lens mutates code only inside `bin/wt-run`, and the others return findings as their final response every count below is a cap, not a target: a clean area earns a short report ## steps …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add nicholas-greenwood/agentic-engineering-skills/propose-refactor@sha256:cc5892a486c88ef5The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261105.5786e71, 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_lhxmbtkwiwrwj5na)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Oct 27, 2026 and Nov 5, 2026, about one every 5 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261105.5786e71 latest | 2026-11-05 | 5786e71 | 4,593 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261028.02f4d07 | 2026-10-28 | 02f4d07 | 2,754 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261027.1382cc7 | 2026-10-27 | 1382cc7 | 2,760 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 (4593 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
nicholas-greenwood/agentic-engineering-skills · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_lhxmbtkwiwrwj5na GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nicholas-greenwood/agentic-engineering-skills/propose-refactor GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/cc5892a486c88ef598aa98c5d8241dea0e390735f3c80052db97db8d0709a70d
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Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.