nw-refactor SKILL.md skillA
nw-refactor from nwave-ai/nwave is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add nwave-ai/nwave/nw-refactor@git:20260609.c723548Pins git:20260609.c723548 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- nwave-ai/nwave
- Path
nWave/skills/nw-refactor/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260609.c723548, committed Jun 9, 2026
- First version recorded
- Mar 20, 2026
- Size
- 4,784 bytes
- Repository stars
- 633
- License
- MIT
Applies the Refactoring Priority Premise (RPP) levels L1-L6 for systematic code refactoring. Use when improving code quality through structured refactoring passes.
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
# NW-REFACTOR: Systematic Code Refactoring **Wave**: CROSS_WAVE **Agent**: Crafty (nw-software-crafter) **Command**: `*refactor` ## Overview Applies the Refactoring Priority Premise (RPP) — 6-level hierarchy L1 Readability|L2 Complexity|L3 Responsibilities|L4 Abstractions|L5 Design Patterns|L6 SOLID++. For complex multi-class refactorings, agent applies Mikado Method internally. ## Execution Model — Batch-Then-Verify (default, unconditional) `/nw-refactor` runs **batch-then-verify** by default, regardless of test-suite speed: 1. **Cascade governs PLANNING ORDER only** — analyze and plan lower levels before higher (L2 transformations build on L1, L3 on L2, etc.). The cascade is a planning discipline, not a test-gating sequence. 2. **Edits applied as one coherent batch** — apply all planned L1-L6 transformations in a single editing session. NO interleaved test runs between levels. 3. **Run the test suite exactly ONCE**, at the very end, after all L1-L6 edits. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add nwave-ai/nwave/nw-refactor@sha256:d3ae7401c1fc0d78The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260609.c723548, 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_opvpnuq7gsu4evfv)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, between Mar 20, 2026 and Jun 9, 2026, about one every 81 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260609.c723548 latest | 2026-06-09 | c723548 | 4,784 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260320.d98f3cb | 2026-03-20 | d98f3cb | 2,961 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
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- 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
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Source
nwave-ai/nwave · 633 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-07 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_opvpnuq7gsu4evfv GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nwave-ai/nwave/nw-refactor GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d3ae7401c1fc0d78bfecc83e034ecf6b27a488a311953be5580278caeb98a2d8
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