Code Refactor
Surgical refactoring — 10 code smells with before/after fixes, design patterns, safe process
- What
- Surgical refactoring — 10 code smells with before/after fixes, design patterns, safe process
- Cost
- Free
- Needs
- none — a codebase to refactor; tests strongly recommended before refactoring
- Install
- Copy the installer prompt below into your Muse — your agent does the rest.
Curated by Skill Harbor — a surgical refactoring skill built on five golden rules: behavior is preserved, small steps, commit before and after, tests are essential, one thing at a time. Covers ten code smells with concrete before/after diffs — long functions, duplicated code, god classes, long parameter lists, feature envy, primitive obsession, magic numbers, nested conditionals, dead code, inappropriate intimacy — plus introducing type safety, the Strategy and Chain-of-Responsibility patterns, a safe five-stage process (prepare → identify → refactor → verify → clean up), a quality checklist (functions under 50 lines, no `any` without justification, tests passing), and a reference table of standard refactoring operations. Honest about when NOT to refactor: working code that won't change, untested critical production code, tight deadlines. By @github, listed here with credit to its creator. Skill Harbor never reviews the code, review it yourself before use.
Version:
Install
Prerequisites: none — a codebase to refactor; tests strongly recommended before refactoring Install "Code Refactor" for me. Surgical refactoring — ten code smells with before/after fixes, design patterns, safe process Repository: https://github.com/github/awesome-copilot/blob/main/skills/refactor/SKILL.md 1. Fetch the SKILL.md file for the github-awesome-copilot-refactor skill from the repository into a temporary folder and summarize what it does in one or two sentences. 2. Safety check: review the SKILL.md and scripts for anything suspicious (unexpected network calls, shell commands, credential harvesting). This repo should contain zero secrets in code, credentials only via the secure vault, allowed hosts declared in the SKILL.md. Verify that holds here; STOP on any red flag and tell me. 3. Install it as a skill: copy SKILL.md and its helper files into the agent's skills directory, in a folder named "github-awesome-copilot-refactor". 4. Verify with no network calls: frontmatter valid, files in place. 5. Report what was installed, where, and what I still need to do myself (e.g. any accounts, API keys, or CLI tools mentioned in the prerequisites above). GitHub is optional: if I have a GitHub account or the gh CLI, you may use it; otherwise public access is fine. Never require it unless it's in the prerequisites above. Rules: don't touch anything outside the temp folder and the install target. Never ask me to paste secrets in chat — credentials go through the secure vault or environment variables. If anything looks off, stop and ask me.
Questions
How do I install a build?
Every product page includes a copy-paste install prompt. Paste it into your Muse and it sets the build up for you — no manual configuration.
Where does my money go?
Straight to the seller. Skill Harbor never processes payments: checkout happens on the seller’s own page, usually Stripe.
What does the ✓ next to a creator’s name mean?
It means we confirmed the identity of the person behind the listing. It says nothing about the code itself — always check a build before installing it.