swe:refactor-opportunities SKILL.md skillA
swe:refactor-opportunities from ckorhonen/swe-skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ckorhonen/swe-skills/swe:refactor-opportunities@git:20260404.50aa7e9Pins git:20260404.50aa7e9 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ckorhonen/swe-skills
- Path
skills/refactor-opportunities/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260404.50aa7e9, committed Apr 4, 2026
- First version recorded
- Apr 4, 2026
- Size
- 6,864 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Reviews a repository and returns a short, best-first backlog of small, low-risk refactor tickets with clear write boundaries and validation paths. Use when a user says `find refactor opportunities`, `what small cleanup tickets should we hand to agents`, `give me parallelizable refactors`, or asks for narrow maintainability wins in an existing repo. Do NOT use for a broad architecture redesign, style-only cleanup sweep, or bug hunt focused on functional regressions.
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
# SWE Refactor Opportunities ## What This Skill Does Use this skill to produce a concrete shortlist of small refactor tickets, not a broad cleanup strategy. Each recommendation should already look like a ticket someone could execute without re-scoping it. ## When To Use Use this skill when the user wants: - A shortlist of narrow refactors - Tickets that can be handed to multiple agents in parallel - Low-risk maintainability improvements with bounded write surfaces - Concrete suggestions rather than an open-ended cleanup brainstorm ## Do Not Use Do not use this skill for: - Architecture rewrites - Broad modernization plans - Style-only cleanup work - Bug hunting for recent regressions ## Inputs To Confirm Confirm or infer: - Repository or package scope - Whether the user wants suggestions tailored to a specific contributor - Any no-touch areas - Whether recent contribution history is available ## What To Optimize For - Small scope - Low behavioral risk - Clear write boundaries - High leverage for maintainability - Concrete tickets that can be executed independently Prefer refactors that: - De-duplicate repeated logic into a small helper or local module …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ckorhonen/swe-skills/swe:refactor-opportunities@sha256:d01a58896b6160baThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260404.50aa7e9, 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 Apr 4, 2026.
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| git:20260404.50aa7e9 latest | 2026-04-04 | 50aa7e9 | 6,864 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260404.f3a9e33 | 2026-04-04 | f3a9e33 | 3,836 B | A | view |
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Source
ckorhonen/swe-skills · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-26 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_vnmu3dhbwhi5htdi GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ckorhonen/swe-skills/swe:refactor-opportunities GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d01a58896b6160baa667928628a58b6dc2d02d94d2b298def199b8d26034396e
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