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refactor-safely

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Use when renaming, moving, extracting, or removing code and every affected location must be known before the first edit — a rename that spans call sites, an extraction that changes a signature, or a removal that might delete something still in use. Trigger phrases: "refactor this safely", "rename X everywhere", "is this code still used", "find everything that calls this before I change it", "preview this refactor". Not for reconciling a feature whose implementation has drifted from its intended design — that is `differential-feature-refactor`, a design question to answer first; this skill is the mechanical preview-apply-verify discipline once the refactor's scope is already known.

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This is the generic copy. If this project has been scaffolded, prefer the unprefixed refactor-safely skill: it is .ai-badger/skills/refactor-safely/SKILL.md, and it has this project's extensions and any project-local.md merged in. This copy has neither.

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