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Best refactoring skills, page 23
Refactoring skills, ranked
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| # | Skill | Repository | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1057 | 1057.Refactor Agents Md A skill your agent uses when about to refactor or refine a user-level or project-level AGENTS.md | vinta/ | 138 | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 1058 | 1058.Swarm Implement Codex adapter for complex implementation work using the canonical opencode-swarm implementation workflow. | ZaxbyHub/ | 490 | — | ~316 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 1059 | 1059.Pstack Skill Rigorous engineering orchestrator ported from Lauren Tan's pstack (poteto-mode): reads your task, picks one of 23 playbooks (bug fix, feature, refactoring, perf, investigation, prototype, babysit… | fabricioctelles/ | 106 | — | ~5k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 4 days ago |
| 1060 | 1060.Extract UI Component Extract reusable UI components from inline patterns. An agent skill from bitovi/ai-enablement-prompts. | bitovi/ | 121 | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 27 days ago |
| 1061 | 1061.Refactoring Surgeon Expert code refactoring specialist for improving code quality without changing behavior. | curiositech/ | 243 | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 1062 | 1062.Code Simplification Refactor code to reduce complexity and duplication without changing behavior. | HybridAIOne/ | 158 | — | ~862 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 1063 | 1063.Dotnet Primary router skill for broad .NET work. An agent skill from managedcode/dotnet-skills. | managedcode/ | 486 | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 1064 | Build in small, individually-verified increments that each leave the system working — instead of big-bang changes that fail mysteriously at the end. | mohitagw15856/ | 1.4k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 1065 | 1065.Refactoring Plan Plan a safe, incremental refactor of messy code without changing behavior. | mohitagw15856/ | 1.4k | — | ~847 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 1066 | 1066.Manuscript Review Pre-publication manuscript audit producing a section-level refactoring report with citation hygiene and submission-readiness checks. | Mathews-Tom/ | 328 | — | ~5.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 1067 | Suggests a cross-model second opinion after substantial or risky code changes. | ccplugins/ | 968 | — | ~515 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 1 mo ago |
| 1068 | 1068.Historian Chesterton's Fence for code you're about to delete or refactor. | ccplugins/ | 968 | — | ~1.6k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 1069 | 1069.Ideation First Use before planning a new feature or greenfield refactor whose requirements aren't yet pinned down — clarifies intent through a few questions and ends with a short scope brief the planner can build… | ccplugins/ | 968 | — | ~926 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 1 mo ago |
| 1070 | 1070.Deep Audit Run a multi-domain audit of the workspace (USD compliance, performance, DRY/reinvention, legacy/shims, robotics-sim best practices, resilience, UX) with parallel read-only reviewers, then execute… | LunCoSim/ | 105 | — | ~1.9k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 1071 | 1071.Subagent Batches Run fix/refactor work with parallel subagents split into non-overlapping file batches; agents never build or test — the coordinator verifies once at the end. | LunCoSim/ | 105 | — | ~899 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 1072 | 1072.Effect TS Effect-TS library usage in TypeScript — Effect.gen generators, Schema.Struct/Schema.Class definitions, Layer/Context.Tag/Service patterns, Effect.pipe pipelines, Data.TaggedError/Data.Class error… | pproenca/ | 215 | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 1 mo ago |
| 1073 | 1073.Build Backend Build or modify backend APIs, services, jobs, persistence, and integrations while preserving contracts, authorization, data integrity, and failure behavior. | hashgraph-online/ | 1.2k | — | ~410 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 1074 | 1074.Build Frontend Build or modify frontend interfaces using repository-native components while preserving accessibility, responsive behavior, state handling, and visual verification. | hashgraph-online/ | 1.2k | — | ~390 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 1075 | 1075.Iterating Multi-conversation methodology for iterative stateful work with context accumulation. | oaustegard/ | 150 | — | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 1076 | 1076.Work Entry point for any development task in this repo — feature, bugfix, refactor, cleanup, a new command, target or evaluator, a collector change. | guardana/ | 129 | — | ~1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 1077 | 1077.TDD Refactor Guard Pre-refactor safety checklist. An agent skill from gustavscirulis/snapgrid. | gustavscirulis/ | 117 | 1 repo | ~1.8k | Automated safety check: Notes | Unknown | 5 mo ago |
| 1078 | 1078.Karpathy Guidelines Behavioral guidelines to reduce common LLM coding mistakes. An agent skill from VKirill/claude-lane-stack. | VKirill/ | 122 | — | ~573 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 1079 | 1079.Codex Provides Codex CLI delegation workflows for complex code generation and development tasks using OpenAI's GPT-5.3-codex models, including English prompt formulation, execution flags, sandbox modes… | giuseppe-trisciuoglio/ | 355 | 1 repo | ~3.2k | Automated safety check: Warn | MIT | 28 days ago |
| 1080 | 1080.Qwen Coder Provides Qwen Coder CLI delegation workflows for coding tasks using Qwen2.5-Coder and QwQ models, including English prompt formulation, execution flags, and safe result handling. | giuseppe-trisciuoglio/ | 355 | 1 repo | ~2.8k | Automated safety check: Warn | MIT | 28 days ago |
| 1081 | Building and refactoring safe, honest functions. An agent skill from celeriant/celeriant-db. | celeriant/ | 114 | — | ~614 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | 9 days ago |
| 1082 | 1082.Autonomous Builder Full-stack software development agent for design, implementation, testing, and deployment. | majiayu000/ | 666 | 1 repo | ~10k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | today |
| 1083 | Produces comprehensive summaries and insights about legacy codebases to help understand unfamiliar code. | majiayu000/ | 666 | 1 repo | ~5.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 1084 | 1084.Dhh Ruby Style Write Ruby and Rails code in DHH's distinctive 37signals style. | Microck/ | 403 | — | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 1085 | 1085.Taste Check Review code using Linus Torvalds' "good taste" philosophy. An agent skill from Microck/ordinary-claude-skills. | Microck/ | 403 | — | ~685 | Automated safety check: Pass | Unknown | 1 mo ago |
| 1086 | 1086.Plan Refactor Create a detailed refactor plan with tiny commits via user interview, then save it as specs/REFACTORLATEST.md. | danielvm-git/ | 257 | — | ~829 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 17 days ago |
| 1087 | Design and optimize function/method parameter lists when defining or refactoring API interfaces, method signatures, or function parameters. | kitchen-engineer42/ | 134 | — | ~940 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 7 mo ago |
| 1088 | 1088.Vibe Scope Guard Detects and redirects scope creep during implementation — unrequested features, drive-by refactors, premature abstraction, and over-engineering. | ash1794/ | 163 | — | ~702 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | yesterday |
| 1089 | 1089.Module Health Modular architecture health assessor for Logseq Template Graph. | aiskillstore/ | 430 | — | ~2.5k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | yesterday |
| 1090 | Documentation conventions for NeMo-RL. An agent skill from NVIDIA/skills. | NVIDIA/ | 3.5k | — | ~357 | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | yesterday |
| 1091 | 1091.Audit On-demand security and code quality audit. An agent skill from MadAppGang/claude-code. | MadAppGang/ | 284 | — | ~3.3k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 6 mo ago |
| 1092 | 1092.Codex CLI Use OpenAI Codex CLI for coding tasks. An agent skill from sundial-org/awesome-openclaw-skills. | sundial-org/ | 663 | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 7 mo ago |
| 1093 | 1093.Refactor Assist Get refactoring suggestions with colored diffs. An agent skill from sundial-org/awesome-openclaw-skills. | sundial-org/ | 663 | — | ~523 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 7 mo ago |
| 1094 | 1094.Builder Translate plans into working, tested code through implementation, debugging, and refactoring — a user-invoked Builder workflow. | dralgorhythm/ | 125 | — | ~794 | Automated safety check: Pass | No licence | 2 mo ago |
| 1095 | A skill your agent uses when deciding whether a software-engineering project belongs at IEEE ICSME (maintenance, evolution, reverse engineering, program comprehension, technical debt, refactoring… | brycewang-stanford/ | 1.2k | — | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 11 days ago |
| 1096 | 1096.Coding Standards A skill your agent uses when reviewing code for quality, naming a class or function, choosing a design pattern, refactoring a code smell, or establishing coding conventions for a new project. | kid-sid/ | 189 | — | ~4.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 mo ago |
| 1097 | Applies KISS, YAGNI, and SOLID principles for clean code with reduced complexity. | athola/ | 342 | — | ~2.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | 2 days ago |
| 1098 | 1098.Adversarial Review 敵対的分析手法を統合したレビューの entry skill。認知バイアス対策の3手法 (Pre-mortem / War Game / Logic Torturing)と、宣言・主張と実態の乖離を突く claim-vs-actual 検出3パターン(Self-Contradiction / Refactor-Claim Audit / Cross-File… | hashgraph-online/ | 1.2k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 1099 | Test-drive browser JavaScript behavior with DOM fixtures, test runners, smoke tests, onload timing, selector refactors, and integration tradeoffs with Selenium or end-to-end tests. | hashgraph-online/ | 1.2k | — | ~797 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 1100 | 1100.Dev TDD Implement scoped behavior changes using meaningful tests before code where practical. | hashgraph-online/ | 1.2k | — | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | today |
| 1101 | Edit and review developer documentation for technical accuracy, completeness, structure, clarity, brevity, peer feedback, technical review, technical verification, QA procedure testing, and feedback… | hashgraph-online/ | 1.2k | — | ~853 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 1102 | Drive Django features with outside-in and double-loop TDD: user story, Selenium or functional test, focused Django unit/integration tests, minimal implementation, and refactor. | hashgraph-online/ | 1.2k | — | ~905 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 1103 | 1103.Django Test Data Design faster, clearer Django test data and test structure with factories, setUpTestData, SimpleTestCase/TestCase choices, fixture-file cleanup, query optimization, and unit-vs-integration boundaries. | hashgraph-online/ | 1.2k | — | ~958 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
| 1104 | Use Python mocks and fakes as a design tool without losing behavioral confidence. | hashgraph-online/ | 1.2k | — | ~877 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | today |
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