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Agent skill

Doc Refactor

by sd0xdev in sd0xdev/sd0x-harness

Refactor documents — simplify without losing information, visualize flows with sequenceDiagram.

MITAuto-check passedDevelopment

Install Doc Refactor

skills CLI
$ npx skills add sd0xdev/sd0x-harness --skill doc-refactor -a claude-code

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

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install sd0xdev/sd0x-harness doc-refactor --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/sd0xdev/sd0x-harness.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/doc-refactor .claude/skills/doc-refactor && 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
doc-refactor
GitHub stars
192
Token cost
~355 tokens
SKILL.md length
91 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
89
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Refactor documents — simplify without losing information, visualize flows with sequenceDiagram.

  • Works in 3 steps: Analyze original content → Refactor → Validate
  • Tasks that involve Refactoring
  • SKILL.md covers Trigger, When NOT to Use, Agent Dispatch and Task, plus 2 more sections
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Doc Refactor is an agent skill from sd0xdev/sd0x-harness. Refactor documents — simplify without losing information, visualize flows with sequenceDiagram.

Its SKILL.md is about 360 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 harness layer for Claude Code — a reference implementation of harness engineering with hook-enforced dual review, state-machine gates that survive context compaction, and… The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Tasks that involve Refactoring

Example prompts

  • “/doc-refactor”

Requirements

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

Workflow steps

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

  1. Analyze original content
  2. Refactor
  3. Validate

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit a4d4bc1. 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
    • Grep
    • Glob
    • Edit
    • Agent

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are markdown).

    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

Doc Refactor loads about 355 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 27 tokens; SKILL.md has 91 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~27
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~355

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 sd0xdev/sd0x-harness at commit a4d4bc1, republished under its MIT licence (© sd0xdev). 91 words, ~355 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/doc-refactor/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
doc-refactor
description
Refactor documents — simplify without losing information, visualize flows with sequenceDiagram.
allowed-tools
Read, Grep, Glob, Edit, Agent

Document Refactoring

Trigger

  • Keywords: refactor doc, simplify document, doc-refactor, condense document

When NOT to Use

  • Code refactoring (use /simplify or /refactor)
  • Document review without changes (use /codex-review-doc)
  • Writing new documents (use /tech-spec or /create-request)

Agent Dispatch

Dispatch to the dedicated doc-refactor agent:

Agent({
  description: "Refactor document — simplify without losing information",
  subagent_type: "doc-refactor",
  prompt: `Refactor the document at: $ARGUMENTS
Follow the task steps and simplification standards defined in this skill.`
})

Task

For the file specified by $ARGUMENTS:

  1. Analyze original content

    • Count lines
    • Identify core information vs redundancy

  2. Refactor

    • Long paragraphs -> tables
    • Steps -> sequenceDiagram
    • Duplicates -> single source

  3. Validate

    • Key information preserved
    • Line count reduced

Simplification Standards

File TypeTarget Lines
CLAUDE.md< 50
rules/*.md< 30
agents/*.md< 50

Output

markdown
## Refactoring Result

- Original: X lines
- Simplified: Y lines (-Z%)

## Changes

- <summary>

© sd0xdev, 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/doc-refactor of sd0xdev/sd0x-harness.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit a4d4bc1

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Categories

Questions about Doc Refactor

What does Doc Refactor do?

Refactor documents — simplify without losing information, visualize flows with sequenceDiagram. Doc Refactor is an agent skill from sd0xdev/sd0x-harness. Refactor documents — simplify without losing information, visualize flows with sequenceDiagram.

When should I use Doc Refactor?

Doc Refactor fits situations like: tasks that involve Refactoring.

How do I install Doc Refactor in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add sd0xdev/sd0x-harness --skill doc-refactor -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/doc-refactor in sd0xdev/sd0x-harness) into .claude/skills/doc-refactor in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Doc Refactor in Codex?

Run `npx skills add sd0xdev/sd0x-harness --skill doc-refactor -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/doc-refactor in sd0xdev/sd0x-harness) into .agents/skills/doc-refactor in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Doc Refactor 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 sd0xdev/sd0x-harness --skill doc-refactor -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/doc-refactor, .gemini/skills/doc-refactor, .github/skills/doc-refactor and .opencode/skills/doc-refactor in your project.

What does Doc Refactor need to run?

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

Does Doc Refactor 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 Doc Refactor 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 Doc Refactor use?

Doc Refactor 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 Doc Refactor use?

About 355 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 1.4k 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 Doc Refactor?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Doc Refactor: 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 Doc Refactor?

sd0xdev (a GitHub user) maintains it in sd0xdev/sd0x-harness, which has 192 GitHub stars. The repository holds 89 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 8, 2026.

Source: sd0xdev/sd0x-harness on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.