refactoring-iteratively SKILL.md skillA
refactoring-iteratively from tkhq/tk is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add tkhq/tk/refactoring-iteratively@git:20261015.483c273Pins git:20261015.483c273 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- tkhq/tk
- Path
.agents/skills/refactoring-iteratively/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20261015.483c273, committed Oct 15, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 13, 2026
- Size
- 5,495 bytes
- Repository stars
- 62
- License
- Apache-2.0
Use when asked to find refactors, simplify, clean up, or improve code in the tk repo with no line-count target given, or when a branch already conforms to AGENTS.md and the question is whether it can be made simpler, more correct, or faster. Covers Rust code, docs, and skills.
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
# Refactoring Iteratively ## Overview Hunt for refactors above the rule floor and apply them one at a time until a fresh scan finds none worth doing. This is not conformance: a candidate is not a violation of a written rule, it is an improvement with a payoff a reader can name. Run `conforming-to-agents-md` first; this skill assumes a clean tree. ## Scope With no argument: the branch diff from the merge base with `main` through the working tree, including untracked files: ```bash git add --intent-to-add . && git diff origin/main ``` With an argument, for example `/refactoring-iteratively tk/src/gpg`: every file under that path, not the diff. On `main` with no argument, stop and ask for a path. ## What qualifies A candidate must state its payoff in one sentence using one of these verbs and a concrete object: **removes** (a clone, an allocation, a lock, a branch, a type, a lifetime, a duplicate), **collapses** (N arms, N helpers, N call sites into one), **tightens** (a type so a state cannot be represented, a visibility, a contract), **moves** (a fallible step to the boundary, a check to parse time). Anything whose payoff needs a different verb is not a candidate. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add tkhq/tk/refactoring-iteratively@sha256:5cd93f077291db30The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261015.483c273, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Sep 13, 2026 and Oct 15, 2026, about one every 11 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261015.483c273 latest | 2026-10-15 | 483c273 | 5,495 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260930.38c0fc2 | 2026-09-30 | 38c0fc2 | 4,903 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260914.e2d057b | 2026-09-14 | e2d057b | 4,883 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260913.b3aaa6a | 2026-09-13 | b3aaa6a | 4,823 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 (5495 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
tkhq/tk · 62 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_pbdlxhlknuzjllbr GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tkhq/tk/refactoring-iteratively GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/5cd93f077291db30b2e2fad29404c69c0ba5c7cd615e77dce5307b0c05d5022d
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