Surgical code refactoring to improve maintainability without changing behavior. Covers extracting functions, renaming variables, breaking down god functions, improving type safety, eliminating code smells, and applying design patterns. Less drastic than repo-rebuilder; use for gradual improvements.
Quickly install refactor AI skill to your development environment via command line
Source: ansteorra/kmp.
Improve code structure and readability without changing external behavior. Refactoring is gradual evolution, not revolution. Use this for improving existing code, not rewriting from scratch.
| Extract Method | Turn code fragment into method | | Extract Class | Move behavior to new class | | Extract Interface | Create interface from implementation | | Inline Method | Move method body back to caller | | Inline Class | Move class behavior to caller | | Pull Up Method | Move method to superclass | | Push Down Method | Move method to subclass |
| Rename Method/Variable | Improve clarity | | Introduce Parameter Object | Group related parameters | | Replace Conditional with Polymorphism | Use polymorphism instead of switch/if | | Replace Magic Number with Constant | Named constants | | Decompose Conditional | Break complex conditions | | Consolidate Conditional | Combine duplicate conditions |
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npx skills add https://github.com/ansteorra/kmp --skill refactorSurgical code refactoring to improve maintainability without changing behavior. Covers extracting functions, renaming variables, breaking down god functions, improving type safety, eliminating code smells, and applying design patterns. Less drastic than repo-rebuilder; use for gradual improvements. Source: ansteorra/kmp.
Open your terminal or command line tool (Terminal, iTerm, Windows Terminal, etc.) Copy and run this command: npx skills add https://github.com/ansteorra/kmp --skill refactor Once installed, the skill will be automatically configured in your AI coding environment and ready to use in Claude Code, Cursor, or OpenClaw
https://github.com/ansteorra/kmp