refactor-assistant

What problem does it solve?

Codebases often accumulate smells such as long functions, duplicated logic, and unclear responsibilities, making maintenance costly and error-prone. This skill analyzes code, identifies refactoring opportunities, and provides concrete change recommendations to improve structure and readability.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Identify refactoring opportunities such as extracting functions/classes, renaming entities, introducing parameter objects, replacing conditionals with polymorphism, removing dead code, and simplifying complex logic.
• Provide rationale, impact estimation, and risk assessment for each proposed change to guide incremental adoption.
• Use-case example: in a large module with long functions and duplicated logic, generate a step-by-step refactoring plan that preserves behavior and enables easier future changes.

Quick Start

Provide a concrete code change request and receive a ready-to-apply refactoring plan.