Agent skill

Controller Cleanup

by dev-toolings in dev-toolings/superpowers-symfony

Refactor fat controllers into lean ones by extracting business logic to services, handlers, and invokable commands

MITAuto-check passedDevelopment

Install Controller Cleanup

skills CLI
$ npx skills add dev-toolings/superpowers-symfony --skill controller-cleanup -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install dev-toolings/superpowers-symfony controller-cleanup --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/dev-toolings/superpowers-symfony.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/content/skills/controller-cleanup .claude/skills/controller-cleanup && 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
controller-cleanup
GitHub stars
222
Token cost
~468 tokens
SKILL.md length
225 words
Files
2
Skills in repo
44
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Refactor fat controllers into lean ones by extracting business logic to services, handlers, and invokable commands

  • Works in 5 steps: List what the action does: input,… → Cover the current HTTP behavior with a… → Map input to a DTO with… → …
  • Development work in your project
  • SKILL.md covers Use when, Default workflow, Guardrails and Progressive disclosure, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Controller Cleanup is an agent skill from dev-toolings/superpowers-symfony. Refactor fat controllers into lean ones by extracting business logic to services, handlers, and invokable commands

Its SKILL.md is about 470 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 1 other file (for example `reference.md`).

It sits in Development. The repository describes itself as: Claude Code plugin for Symfony 7.4 LTS & 8.x — 44 skills, 7 AI subagents & 13 commands for API Platform v4, Doctrine ORM 3, TDD (Pest/PHPUnit), Messenger, security & DDD. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Development work in your project

Example prompts

  • “/controller-cleanup”

Requirements

  • Pre-approved tools (allowed-tools): Read, Glob, Grep

Workflow steps

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

  1. List what the action does: input, validation, authorization, business logic, persistence, side effects.
  2. Cover the current HTTP behavior with a functional test before moving anything.
  3. Map input to a DTO with #[MapRequestPayload] or #[MapQueryString] and let the validator reject it.
  4. Move business logic into a service or a command handler, authorization into a voter, side effects into events or messages.
  5. Leave the action to resolve, authorize, delegate and respond, in five to ten lines.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 459bcd0. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves these tools, so the agent can use them without asking each time:

    • Read
    • Glob
    • Grep

    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

Controller Cleanup loads about 468 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 33 tokens; SKILL.md has 225 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~33
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~468

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 dev-toolings/superpowers-symfony at commit 459bcd0, republished under its MIT licence (© dev-toolings). 225 words, ~468 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/controller-cleanup/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder). This skill also uses 1 other file; get the full folder from GitHub.
name
controller-cleanup
description
Refactor fat controllers into lean ones by extracting business logic to services, handlers, and invokable commands
allowed-tools
Read, Glob, Grep
capabilities
read, search
tags
architecture

Controller Cleanup (Symfony)

Use when

  • A controller action holds business logic, queries, or more than a handful of lines.
  • Input parsing, validation, authorization and persistence are mixed in one action.
  • A console command does the real work itself instead of delegating it.

Default workflow

  1. List what the action does: input, validation, authorization, business logic, persistence, side effects.
  2. Cover the current HTTP behavior with a functional test before moving anything.
  3. Map input to a DTO with #[MapRequestPayload] or #[MapQueryString] and let the validator reject it.
  4. Move business logic into a service or a command handler, authorization into a voter, side effects into events or messages.
  5. Leave the action to resolve, authorize, delegate and respond, in five to ten lines.

Guardrails

  • Type-hint services as arguments or constructor parameters; never pull them from the container.
  • Keep the HTTP behavior identical: same status codes, same payloads.
  • Do not move the logic into a "manager" that is the old controller under a new name.
  • Write console entry points as invokable #[AsCommand] classes (Symfony 7.3+) that delegate to the same services.

Progressive disclosure

  • Use this file for execution posture and risk controls.
  • Open references when deep implementation details are needed.

Output contract

  • Lean actions that delegate.
  • The extracted DTOs, services, voters or handlers, one responsibility each.
  • Functional tests showing the HTTP behavior is unchanged.

References

  • reference.md

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

Files

SKILL.md and 1 other file in content/skills/controller-cleanup of dev-toolings/superpowers-symfony.

  • SKILL.md
  • reference.md

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 459bcd0

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Categories

Questions about Controller Cleanup

What does Controller Cleanup do?

Refactor fat controllers into lean ones by extracting business logic to services, handlers, and invokable commands. Controller Cleanup is an agent skill from dev-toolings/superpowers-symfony.

When should I use Controller Cleanup?

Controller Cleanup fits situations like: development work in your project.

How do I install Controller Cleanup in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add dev-toolings/superpowers-symfony --skill controller-cleanup -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (content/skills/controller-cleanup in dev-toolings/superpowers-symfony) into .claude/skills/controller-cleanup in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Controller Cleanup in Codex?

Run `npx skills add dev-toolings/superpowers-symfony --skill controller-cleanup -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (content/skills/controller-cleanup in dev-toolings/superpowers-symfony) into .agents/skills/controller-cleanup in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Controller Cleanup 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 dev-toolings/superpowers-symfony --skill controller-cleanup -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/controller-cleanup, .gemini/skills/controller-cleanup, .github/skills/controller-cleanup and .opencode/skills/controller-cleanup in your project.

What does Controller Cleanup need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Controller Cleanup is instructions for the agent only. Its frontmatter pre-approves these tools: Read, Glob, Grep.

Does Controller Cleanup 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 Controller Cleanup 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 Controller Cleanup use?

Controller Cleanup 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 Controller Cleanup use?

About 468 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.9k 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 Controller Cleanup?

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Who maintains Controller Cleanup?

dev-toolings (a GitHub organization) maintains it in dev-toolings/superpowers-symfony, which has 222 GitHub stars. The repository holds 44 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 5, 2026.

Source: dev-toolings/superpowers-symfony on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.