preparatory-refactor skillA
preparatory-refactor is agent-read markdown (skill) from stevepolitodesign/skills: Identify opportunities to introduce a refactor that would make a feature easy to implement..
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What the file says
# Preparatory refactoring > Make the change easy, then make the easy change. — Kent Beck You're looking for the refactorings *this* feature asks for. A preparatory refactoring earns its place by making the feature's diff smaller and more obvious, so if you can't show that, leave it out — a finding that stands on its own without the feature is a code review finding, and `/review` is where it goes. You identify, you don't refactor. Nothing here edits code. The report has to survive being pasted into a session that has none of this conversation, which is the real constraint on how long it can be. ## Workflow 1. Get the feature. 2. Find where it lands — one angle, then two more running in the background. 3. Sketch the naive diff — what you'd touch if you just wrote it now. 4. Name the moves that shrink that diff. 5. Report the ones you'd defend. ### 1. Get the feature The feature, if the user passed one: `$ARGUMENTS` …
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How to install
mdr add stevepolitodesign/skills/preparatory-refactor@git:20260916.62da9bemdr add stevepolitodesign/skills/preparatory-refactor@sha256:51488a5d14112ac8Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.
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Versions
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260916.62da9be latest | 2026-09-16 | 62da9be | 9,731 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260915.6a51426 | 2026-09-15 | 6a51426 | 8,441 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260824.84f78a9 | 2026-08-24 | 84f78a9 | 8,472 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260820.b81bd59 | 2026-08-20 | b81bd59 | 8,075 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260818.c2a61b7 | 2026-08-18 | c2a61b7 | 6,019 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
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Source
stevepolitodesign/skills · 3 stars · license none · pushed 2026-09-24 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_wex6arzvycbzgntu GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=stevepolitodesign/skills/preparatory-refactor GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/51488a5d14112ac832412f71a8d9d124b6a3dfea3462b62fee377c32cbeeb04f
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