refactoring SKILL.md skillA
refactoring from larchanka/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add larchanka/skills/refactoring@v1.0.0Pins v1.0.0 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- larchanka/skills
- Path
refactoring/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- v1.0.0, committed Nov 4, 2026
- First version recorded
- Nov 4, 2026
- Size
- 5,258 bytes
- Repository stars
- 50
- License
- MIT
Executes the 'Then Make it Right' discipline: pins behavior, eliminates duplication, enforces CRAP < 10, runs mutation gates, and improves architecture without altering observable behavior.
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 ("Then Make it Right")
Refactoring is the disciplined process of changing internal code structure without changing its external observable behavior. It follows the Red $\to$ Green minimal implementation ("Make it Work") to ensure code health, architectural integrity, and long-term maintainability across any programming language.
## The Core Rule
1. **Pin what the code does.** Ensure existing tests (or characterization tests) cover the current behavior.
2. **Change the structure.** Refactor code toward cleaner abstractions, lower complexity, and single responsibility.
3. **Prove the behavior did not change.** All tests must stay green. A failing test during refactoring is a regression, not progress.
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## The Three Automated Quality Gates
To prevent subjective or superficial refactoring, enforce the three automated quality gates using the native tools of the target project's ecosystem:
### 1. `risk-gate` (Complexity & CRAP Score)
* **Rule**: Reduce each function under **CRAP 10** by splitting it, by testing it, or both. Consider whether case statements are worth reducing.
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How to install
mdr add larchanka/skills/refactoring@sha256:367c3763cb671b20The line at the top of this page pins the label v1.0.0, 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 2 versions of this file, all committed on Nov 4, 2026.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v1.0.0 latest | 2026-11-04 | 48e9468 | 5,258 B | A | view · diff |
| v1.0.0 | 2026-11-04 | 4ade1be | 4,556 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 (5258 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
larchanka/skills · 50 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_rxplvxp2git6ectl GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=larchanka/skills/refactoring GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/367c3763cb671b207516013f133c7c18d9bc962d34ec12831cb8f4d325cf9f7c
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