refactor SKILL.md skillA
refactor from doist/todoist-cli is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add doist/todoist-cli/refactor@git:20261105.582c0e7Pins git:20261105.582c0e7 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- doist/todoist-cli
- Path
.agents/skills/refactor/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261105.582c0e7, committed Nov 5, 2026
- Size
- 2,067 bytes
- Repository stars
- 330
- License
- MIT
Changes the structure of code without changing its behaviour, with the current behaviour pinned by tests first. Use when asked to "refactor", "clean up", "simplify", "extract", "rename", "move" or "deduplicate" code, or when another task needs restructuring first.
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
# Refactor A refactor changes structure, not behaviour. Bugs included: if you find one, note it for a separate fix and keep it as it is. ## 1. Pin the current behaviour Find the tests that cover the code at its public interface: the command run through `program.parseAsync(['node', 'td', ...])`, or the exported helper. Where a behaviour has no test, add one that passes **now**, asserting what the code does today. Run them. Done when every behaviour you will touch has a passing test. ## 2. Delete dead code first Remove code nothing reaches, if you can prove it: no caller (`rg` for every name, including the lazy command registry in `src/index.ts` and `scripts/`). Run the tests. Done when they pass. ## 3. Move one concept at a time Make one structural change, run the pinned tests, repeat. Migrate every caller and delete the old API; no shims left behind. Command names, flags, `--json` output shapes and error codes are what people's scripts and agents rely on, and `SKILL_CONTENT` documents them: keep them, or stop and ask (changing them is a breaking `feat!:` release). Done when the tests pass after each step and no caller uses the old shape. ## 4. Leave the tests alone …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add doist/todoist-cli/refactor@sha256:cfcb05e4d7da3861The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261105.582c0e7, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_yfzkn4cqttttlaig)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Nov 5, 2026.
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 (2067 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
doist/todoist-cli · 330 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_yfzkn4cqttttlaig GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=doist/todoist-cli/refactor GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/cfcb05e4d7da3861733927fd5aab370595184255c836068b34a77f6aee8c9747
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