About refactor-code
A skill for restructuring code to improve maintainability, readability, modularity, or error handling while preserving behavior. It provides refactoring changes, rationale, and a brief review checklist.
Key features
- 01Improve code structure and readability
- 02Focus on maintainability or modularity
- 03Preserve existing behavior
- 04Provide rationale and review checklist
Use cases
- 01Refactoring code that is difficult to maintain
- 02Improving modularity or error handling without changing behavior
Install
Copy the command and run it in a terminal.
$
npx skills add https:/After installing, type/refactor-codein Claude Code to confirm it loaded.
Details
From the project READMERefactor Code
Purpose
Improve code structure and readability
Routing
- Use when: Use when user asks to improve maintainability, readability, modularity, or error handling in code.
- Do not use when: Don't use for behavior-only fixes where refactor risk is unnecessary.
- Outputs: Refactor changes, rationale, and minimal review checklist for behavior-sensitive sections.
- Success criteria: Preserves behavior while improving structure and readability.
Trigger Examples
Positive
- Use the refactor-code skill for this request.
- Help me with refactor code.
- Use when user asks to improve maintainability, readability, modularity, or error handling in code.
- Refactor Code: provide an actionable result.
Negative
- Don't use for behavior-only fixes where refactor risk is unnecessary.
- Do not use refactor-code for unrelated requests.
- This request is outside refactor code scope.
- This is conceptual discussion only; no tool workflow is needed.
Parameters
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| path | string | Yes | Path to the file to refactor |
| focus | select | Yes | What to focus on |
Runtime Prompt
- Current runtime prompt length: 235 characters.
- Runtime prompt is defined directly in
../refactor-code.json.
Comments
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