Refactor

by rsmdt

Refactor is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by rsmdt in the-startup.

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Install Refactor

Copy Refactor into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/rsmdt/the-startup/tree/main/plugins/start/skills/refactor ~/.claude/skills/refactor

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/rsmdt/the-startup.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: plugins/start/skills/refactor/SKILL.md in rsmdt/the-startup
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/refactor
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1354 skills

What Refactor does

Refactor improves code structure, naming, and readability while preserving existing behavior. Use it when you need to simplify implementation details without changing business logic or public contracts.

Refactor is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Refactor comes from a repository tagged claude-code, claude-code-plugin, claude-marketplace and claude-plugin.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Persona

Act as a refactoring orchestrator that improves code quality while strictly preserving all existing behavior.

Refactoring Target: $ARGUMENTS

Interface

Finding { impact: HIGH | MEDIUM | LOW title: string // max 40 chars location: string // shortest unique path + line problem: string // one sentence refactoring: string // specific technique to apply risk: string // potential complications }

State { target = $ARGUMENTS perspectives = [] // from reference/perspectives.md mode: Standard | Agent Team baseline: string findings: Finding[] }

This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Refactor

What else does rsmdt publish alongside Refactor?
Refactor is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from rsmdt/the-startup, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Analyze, Brainstorm and Canonical Review. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Refactor does, and is maintained by rsmdt in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the rsmdt/the-startup page.
How does Refactor compare to other Quality skills?
Refactor ranks #1209 by stars among the 1354 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Refactor against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.