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Agent skill

Orch Refine Code

by affaan-m in affaan-m/ECC

Orchestrate a behavior-preserving refactor — confirm tests are green, restructure without changing behavior, keep tests green, review, and gated commit.

MITAuto-check passedDevelopment

Install Orch Refine Code

skills CLI
$ npx skills add affaan-m/ECC --skill orch-refine-code -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install affaan-m/ECC orch-refine-code --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/affaan-m/ECC.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/orch-refine-code .claude/skills/orch-refine-code && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
orch-refine-code
GitHub stars
275k
Used in
1 other repo
Token cost
~448 tokens
SKILL.md length
170 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
645
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Orchestrate a behavior-preserving refactor — confirm tests are green, restructure without changing behavior, keep tests green, review, and gated commit.

  • Works in 4 steps: Run the orch-pipeline engine with the… → For dead-code / duplication sweeps,… → Stop at Gate 1 (restructure plan) and… → …
  • The structure should improve but behavior must not change
  • SKILL.md covers When to Use, Operation settings, How It Works and Example
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Orch Refine Code is an agent skill from affaan-m/ECC. Orchestrate a behavior-preserving refactor — confirm tests are green, restructure without changing behavior, keep tests green, review, and gated commit. Use when the structure should improve but behavior must not change.

Its SKILL.md is about 450 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Development, covering Refactoring. The repository describes itself as: The agent harness performance optimization system. Skills, instincts, memory, security, and research-first development for Claude Code, Codex, Opencode, Cursor and beyond. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • The structure should improve but behavior must not change
  • Tasks that involve Refactoring

Example prompts

  • “/orch-refine-code”

Workflow steps

4 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Run the orch-pipeline engine with the settings above.
  2. For dead-code / duplication sweeps, delegate to the refactor-cleaner agent
  3. Stop at Gate 1 (restructure plan) and Gate 2 (pre-commit).
  4. Commit as refactor: — the diff must be behavior-neutral.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit ef648e0. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Orch Refine Code loads about 448 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 59 tokens; SKILL.md has 170 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~59
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~448

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from affaan-m/ECC at commit ef648e0, republished under its MIT licence (© affaan-m). 170 words, ~448 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/orch-refine-code/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
orch-refine-code
description
Orchestrate a behavior-preserving refactor — confirm tests are green, restructure without changing behavior, keep tests green, review, and gated commit. Use when the structure should improve but behavior must not change.
metadata.origin
ECC

orch-refine-code

Actor · action · target: orch · refine · code. Thin wrapper over the shared engine in orch-pipeline.

When to Use

  • Same behavior, better structure: extract modules, remove duplication, kill dead code, reduce nesting, rename for clarity.
  • Distinguish from siblings: if behavior is meant to change at all, this is the wrong skill (orch-change-feature / orch-fix-defect).

Operation settings

  • Default size floor: standard — restructures touch multiple files.
  • Phase mask: 0 → 2 (plan the restructure) → 4 (keep green) → 5 → 6. No new behavior tests are written — the existing suite is the safety net.
  • First move (phase 4): confirm the relevant tests exist and are green before touching code; if coverage is thin, add characterization tests first. Then restructure in small steps, re-running tests after each.

How It Works

  1. Run the orch-pipeline engine with the settings above.
  2. For dead-code / duplication sweeps, delegate to the refactor-cleaner agent (it runs knip / depcheck / ts-prune and removes safely).
  3. Stop at Gate 1 (restructure plan) and Gate 2 (pre-commit).
  4. Commit as refactor: — the diff must be behavior-neutral.

Example

orch-refine-code: extract the NWS HTTP client out of poller.py
→ confirm tests green → plan extraction  [GATE 1: approve]
→ move in small steps, tests green throughout → code-review
→ commit refactor:  [GATE 2: confirm]

© affaan-m, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/orch-refine-code of affaan-m/ECC.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit ef648e0

Used in 1 other repository

We found 1 copy of this SKILL.md (exact, near-identical or edited) in other folders, from 1 other GitHub owner. This page covers the copy in affaan-m/ECC, which our catalogue first saw on October 7, 2026.

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Questions about Orch Refine Code

What does Orch Refine Code do?

Orchestrate a behavior-preserving refactor — confirm tests are green, restructure without changing behavior, keep tests green, review, and gated commit. Orch Refine Code is an agent skill from affaan-m/ECC. Orchestrate a behavior-preserving refactor — confirm tests are green, restructure without changing behavior, keep tests green, review, and gated commit.

When should I use Orch Refine Code?

Orch Refine Code fits situations like: the structure should improve but behavior must not change; tasks that involve Refactoring.

How do I install Orch Refine Code in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add affaan-m/ECC --skill orch-refine-code -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/orch-refine-code in affaan-m/ECC) into .claude/skills/orch-refine-code in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Orch Refine Code in Codex?

Run `npx skills add affaan-m/ECC --skill orch-refine-code -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/orch-refine-code in affaan-m/ECC) into .agents/skills/orch-refine-code in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Orch Refine Code in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add affaan-m/ECC --skill orch-refine-code -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/orch-refine-code, .gemini/skills/orch-refine-code, .github/skills/orch-refine-code and .opencode/skills/orch-refine-code in your project.

What does Orch Refine Code need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Orch Refine Code is instructions for the agent only.

Does Orch Refine Code access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Orch Refine Code safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Orch Refine Code use?

Orch Refine Code is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Orch Refine Code use?

About 448 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.8k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Orch Refine Code?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Orch Refine Code: Guidelines (akash-network/node, 1.1k stars), Component Refactoring (langflow-ai/langflow, 156k stars), Migrate Core Code to Submodules (tinyhumansai/openhuman, 42k stars) and Systematic Code Refactoring (luongnv89/claude-howto, 42k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Orch Refine Code?

affaan-m (a GitHub user) maintains it in affaan-m/ECC, which has 275,023 GitHub stars. The repository holds 645 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 5, 2026.

Source: affaan-m/ECC on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.