Refactor Safely

by tirth8205

Refactor Safely is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by tirth8205 in code-review-graph.

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Install Refactor Safely

Copy Refactor Safely 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/tirth8205/code-review-graph/tree/main/skills/refactor-safely ~/.claude/skills/refactor-safely

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/tirth8205/code-review-graph.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/refactor-safely/SKILL.md in tirth8205/code-review-graph
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/refactor-safely
Collection: One of 7 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1354 skills

What Refactor Safely does

Refactor Safely plans and executes code refactoring using dependency analysis from a knowledge graph. It helps developers safely rename symbols, remove dead code, and verify refactoring impact before and after applying changes.

Refactor Safely is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Refactor Safely comes from a repository tagged ai-coding, claude, claude-code, code-review and graphrag.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Refactor Safely

Use the knowledge graph to plan and execute refactoring with confidence.

Steps

Use refactor_tool with mode="suggest" for community-driven refactoring suggestions.
Use refactor_tool with mode="dead_code" to find unreferenced code.
For renames, use refactor_tool with mode="rename" to preview all affected locations.
Use apply_refactor_tool with the refactor_id to apply renames.
After changes, run detect_changes_tool to verify the refactoring impact.

Safety Checks

Always preview before applying (rename mode gives you an edit list).
Check get_impact_radius_tool before major refactors.
Use get_affected_flows_tool to ensure no critical paths are broken.
Run find_large_functions to identify decomposition targets.

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

Frequently asked about Refactor Safely

What else does tirth8205 publish alongside Refactor Safely?
Refactor Safely is one of 7 skills that DirSkills catalogs from tirth8205/code-review-graph, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Build Graph, Debug Issue and Explore Codebase. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Refactor Safely does, and is maintained by tirth8205 in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the tirth8205/code-review-graph page.
How does Refactor Safely compare to other Quality skills?
Refactor Safely ranks #98 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 Safely against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.