/refactor-code
Improve code structure and readability
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/refactor-code
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Improve code structure and readability
SKILL.md
refactor-code.SKILL.mdname: refactor-code description: "Improve code structure and readability"
Refactor Code
Purpose
Improve code structure and readability
Routing
- Use when: Use when user asks to improve maintainability, readability, modularity, or error handling in code.
- Do not use when: Don't use for behavior-only fixes where refactor risk is unnecessary.
- Outputs: Refactor changes, rationale, and minimal review checklist for behavior-sensitive sections.
- Success criteria: Preserves behavior while improving structure and readability.
Trigger Examples
Positive
- Use the refactor-code skill for this request.
- Help me with refactor code.
- Use when user asks to improve maintainability, readability, modularity, or error handling in code.
- Refactor Code: provide an actionable result.
Negative
- Don't use for behavior-only fixes where refactor risk is unnecessary.
- Do not use refactor-code for unrelated requests.
- This request is outside refactor code scope.
- This is conceptual discussion only; no tool workflow is needed.
Parameters
| Name | Type | Required | Description | |---|---|---|---| | path | string | Yes | Path to the file to refactor | | focus | select | Yes | What to focus on |
Runtime Prompt
- Current runtime prompt length: 235 characters.
- Runtime prompt is defined directly in `../refactor-code.json`.
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Repo: CoWork-OS/CoWork-OS
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