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software-code-refactoring

Improve production code quality while preserving all existing test behavior. Commonly used for the Refactor phase of TDD red-green-refactor, but applicable to any codebase with tests. Use when production code works but needs cleanup — reducing duplication, improving naming, simplifying complexity, aligning with codebase style, extracting functions or types, or removing dead code. Discovers conventions, applies safe transformations, verifies compilation after each change, and produces a structured summary. Works with any language or framework.

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Installation and usage

Improve production code quality while preserving all existing test behavior. Commonly used for the Refactor phase of TDD red-green-refactor, but applicable to any codebase with tests. Use when production code works but needs cleanup — reducing duplication, improving naming, simplifying complexity, aligning with codebase style, extracting functions or types, or removing dead code. Discovers conventions, applies safe transformations, verifies compilation after each change, and produces a structured summary. Works with any language or framework.

Installation
$ install --globalskills.sh
Usage

Once installed, you can use this skill by running the following command in your terminal:

skills use software-code-refactoring