Trace Mcp Refactoring

Trace Mcp Refactoring is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by nikolai-vysotskyi in trace-mcp.

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Install Trace Mcp Refactoring

Copy Trace Mcp Refactoring 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/nikolai-vysotskyi/trace-mcp/tree/master/skills/trace-mcp-refactoring ~/.claude/skills/trace-mcp-refactoring

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/nikolai-vysotskyi/trace-mcp.git

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

In this catalog

Source file: skills/trace-mcp-refactoring/SKILL.md in nikolai-vysotskyi/trace-mcp
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/trace-mcp-refactoring
Collection: One of 4 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1897 skills

What Trace Mcp Refactoring does

Trace Mcp Refactoring guides safe code refactors in projects indexed by trace-mcp. Use it to assess risk, inspect impact, extract functions, and rename symbols across files without missing references.

Trace Mcp Refactoring is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Trace Mcp Refactoring comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, claude, claude-ai, claude-code and claude-code-plugin.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

trace-mcp — Refactoring Workflow

Use this skill whenever you are about to rename, restructure, extract, or otherwise refactor code in a project indexed by trace-mcp. The goal is to never break cross-file references and never guess at what is affected.

When to Use

Renaming a class, function, method, variable, or file
Extracting a function or method
Restructuring a module or splitting a file
Changing a function signature
Any change that touches more than one call site

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

Frequently asked about Trace Mcp Refactoring

What else does nikolai-vysotskyi publish alongside Trace Mcp Refactoring?
Trace Mcp Refactoring is one of 4 skills that DirSkills catalogs from nikolai-vysotskyi/trace-mcp, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Trace MCP, Trace MCP Codemod and Trace MCP Pre-Commit. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Trace Mcp Refactoring does, and is maintained by nikolai-vysotskyi in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the nikolai-vysotskyi/trace-mcp page.
How does Trace Mcp Refactoring compare to other Quality skills?
Trace Mcp Refactoring ranks #1762 by stars among the 1897 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 Trace Mcp Refactoring against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.