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refactor

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Invoke when user pastes code asking to clean, simplify, improve, compress. "this is too long", "make it cleaner", "too complex", "refactor this", "improve this code", "clean this up", "simplify this". SDLC categories: Code Editing, Software Maintenance.

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3 rules. 0 are common, 3 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.

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  1. Distinctive:

    Read entire code unit (not just pasted section)

    line 12
  2. Distinctive:

    If refactor changes behavior: flag explicitly

    line 18
  3. Distinctive:

    If <30% impossible: explain why complexity is irreducible.

    line 21

“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 169 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.

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SKILL.md

Refactor Skill

  1. Read entire code unit (not just pasted section)
  2. Identify single core responsibility
  3. Find existing utilities/patterns in codebase that overlap
  4. Find composition point — where does complexity live across callers?
  5. Output: minimum correct replacement
  6. State: what was eliminated and why (1 line)
  7. If refactor changes behavior: flag explicitly

Success metric: output LOC < 30% of input LOC. If <30% impossible: explain why complexity is irreducible.

Heuristics: Comment→rename. Twice→extract. Inherit→compose. 20+ lines→abstraction. One-method class→function. Boolean params→split. Switch on types→dispatch.

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