refactoring SKILL.md skillA

refactoring from tamnguyendinh/anvien is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.

Install it, pinned

mdr add tamnguyendinh/anvien/refactoring@git:20260605.6f76f90

Pins git:20260605.6f76f90 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.

Audit grade: A, 17 of 17 checks passed
Kind: SKILL.md skill
Repository: tamnguyendinh/anvien
Path: internal/aicontext/skills/refactoring/SKILL.md
Versions recorded: 1
Latest version: git:20260605.6f76f90, committed Jun 5, 2026
Size: 2,565 bytes
Repository stars: 12
License: MIT

Use when the user asks to refactor code.

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 With Anvien

Use this skill for behavior-preserving renames, extractions, moves, splits, and shared-code cleanup.

This skill is a workflow gate for refactoring work. It is not a command router. When a concrete Anvien command is needed, choose it directly from the generated Command Selection Guide.

## Command Choices

| Need | Use |
|---|---|
| Understand current ownership | MCP/CLI `context`; prefer `context file` or `context symbol` once target type is known |
| Check callers and flows before editing | MCP/CLI `impact --direction upstream`; prefer `impact file` or `impact symbol` once target type is known |
| Rename a symbol | MCP `rename` or CLI `anvien rename <symbol> <newName> --repo <repo>` |
| Check API route/contract consumers | MCP `api_impact` or CLI `anvien api impact [route] --repo <repo>` |
| Check route/tool blast radius | `anvien impact route <route> --repo <repo>` or `anvien impact tool <tool> --repo <repo>` |
| Verify changed scope before commit | MCP `detect_changes` or CLI `anvien detect-changes --repo <repo> --scope all` |

## Workflow

1. Refresh the graph with `anvien analyze --force` before graph-based refactoring.
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Read the whole file at its exact version.

How to install

The exact contents, by fingerprint

mdr add tamnguyendinh/anvien/refactoring@sha256:0a597e52fbd89d7d

The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260605.6f76f90, 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.

Badge

[![mdr](https://markdownregistry.com/badge/art_rqj4hbup75ze75ka.svg)](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_rqj4hbup75ze75ka)

5 badge image fetches in 30 days. What the badge shows.

Versions

The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jun 5, 2026.

version	committed	commit	size	audit
git:20260605.6f76f90 latest	2026-06-05	6f76f90	2,565 B	A	view

Audit of the latest version

A 17 of 17 checks passed. Fixed automatic checks with no AI involved, so the same checks give the 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 (2565 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

tamnguyendinh/anvien · 12 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-25 · branch master

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_rqj4hbup75ze75ka
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tamnguyendinh/anvien/refactoring
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/0a597e52fbd89d7d05e2cc7971abc98a7c9a58f1200767764440dbfe67944fb9

Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.

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