refactoring SKILL.md skillA
refactoring from fabiandistler/agents is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add fabiandistler/agents/refactoring@v4.1Pins v4.1 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- fabiandistler/agents
- Path
skills/refactoring/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 5
- Latest version
- v4.1, committed Oct 22, 2026
- First version recorded
- Sep 28, 2026
- Size
- 4,550 bytes
- Repository stars
- 2
- License
- none declared
Finds where refactoring is worth starting in an unfamiliar codebase by ranking files by git churn (hotspots) and explaining the ranking. Use when deciding which code to refactor first or where to start cleaning up a legacy repository.
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 targets One job: answer "where should we start?" with evidence instead of a guess. ## When to use - The user asks which files or modules are worth refactoring first, where the hotspots are, or where to begin cleaning up a repo nobody in the conversation knows well. - Not for: how to perform a particular refactoring (technique names and mechanics need no help), whether one module or dependency is healthy (that is `members/coupling-cohesion/SKILL.md`, read via the `architecture` router), staging a risky migration, or test-first development. ## Rank by churn, then read The bundled script ranks files by their git history, the one source of evidence every repo already has: ``` python3 <skills-dir>/refactoring/scripts/churn.py [path] [--since '12 months ago'] [--json] ``` `[path]` is the repository to rank (default: the current directory). The same script is installed under your agent skills directory. Because the script takes the target as an argument, the command works from any working directory once installed. Per file it reports commits in the window, distinct authors, current size, …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add fabiandistler/agents/refactoring@sha256:2025efb8bf027e81The line at the top of this page pins the label v4.1, 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 5 versions of this file, between Sep 28, 2026 and Oct 22, 2026, about one every 6 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| v4.1 latest | 2026-10-22 | e7a86a8 | 4,550 B | A | view · diff |
| v4.1 | 2026-10-04 | 43dc54f | 4,562 B | A | view · diff |
| v4.1 | 2026-10-04 | 549c8b7 | 4,522 B | A | view · diff |
| v4.1 | 2026-09-28 | ac28853 | 4,453 B | A | view · diff |
| v4.1 | 2026-09-28 | 1b16f52 | 4,453 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 (4550 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
fabiandistler/agents · 2 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-11-03 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_vbvdo6cbmuijveck GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=fabiandistler/agents/refactoring GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2025efb8bf027e8113f3db643a820f7bbf3a5aa07a08e8cb8a1226993a2cc517
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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