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refactor

Refactoring process with test safety. Invoke immediately when user or document mentions refactoring, or proactively when code gets too complex or messy.

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

The body is a well-sequenced, validation-heavy refactoring workflow with concrete commands, templates, and explicit test checkpoints at every step. Its main weaknesses are minor soft rhetoric that could be trimmed and refactoring techniques described as directives rather than illustrated with examples.

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Conciseness

The body is dense with directive bullets and assumes Claude's competence (no explanations of refactoring, tests, or git), but minor soft rhetoric like "become a critic" could be trimmed, fitting anchor 4 rather than 5.

4 / 5

Actionability

Concrete commands (./test.sh, commit format "- r <refactoring>") and copy-paste REFACTORING_SUMMARY.md templates are provided; the refactoring techniques are listed as directives without code examples, a minor gap acceptable for an instruction-only skill, fitting anchor 4.

4 / 5

Workflow Clarity

A clear four-stage sequence has explicit validation checkpoints (baseline plus tests-before/after every refactor) and feedback loops (test→change→test, final-eval repeat-until-dry), matching anchor 5; the destructive/batch cap does not apply since validation is present.

5 / 5

Progressive Disclosure

Content is well-organized under clear section headers and is a self-contained process needing no external references (references/credits.md is unreferenced attribution); at ~90 lines the under-50-lines simple-skill 5 exception does not strictly apply, so anchor 4 fits.

4 / 5

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Description

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Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

The description clearly and explicitly answers both what the skill does and when to invoke it, with concrete trigger phrases and a distinct refactoring niche. It is slightly weak on action specificity and synonym coverage, relying on a single keyword plus one natural phrase.

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Specificity

"Refactoring process with test safety" names the domain plus one concrete concern (test safety), matching anchor 3; it does not list several specific refactoring actions required for a 4.

3 / 5

Completeness

It explicitly states the what ("Refactoring process with test safety") and the when with concrete trigger phrases ("when user or document mentions refactoring", "when code gets too complex or messy"), matching anchor 5; not 4 since the when is already explicit.

5 / 5

Trigger Term Quality

"refactoring" is a relevant natural keyword and "code gets too complex or messy" is a natural user phrase, but common synonyms (refactor verb form, clean up, restructure) are absent, fitting anchor 3.

3 / 5

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

"refactoring" is a clear niche, but the proactive trigger "when code gets too complex or messy" is broad enough to overlap with general code-quality/cleanup skills, giving minor overlap risk per anchor 4.

4 / 5

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Validation

93%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation15 / 16 Passed

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