spec-refactoring

Specification refactoring consolidates conflicting requirements, merges duplicate sections, and standardizes terminology across your docs. It identifies scattered information—like password rules repeated in multiple places—and reorganizes them into a single, authoritative section for clarity and maintainability.

Refactor specs when they've evolved organically over multiple feature iterations and show signs of decay: conflicting terminology, outdated sections, or unclear structure. It's essential for multi-spec ecosystems, legacy documentation, and before major feature upgrades to ensure traceability between implementations and specifications.

Yes. Specification refactoring reorganizes and standardizes your docs to establish clear traceability between feature implementations and their requirements. It removes obsolete sections and ensures consistent terminology, making it easier to map code to specs and verify requirement coverage.

Specification refactoring consolidates evolving specs to eliminate inconsistencies, redundancies, and poor structure while preserving all feature coverage. It generates changelog entries, migration notes, and delivers a reorganized, standardized document with improved clarity and navigability.

State the feature you want to refactor—for example, "Refactor the spec for user authentication." The Skill identifies conflicting requirements, consolidates scattered information into logical sections, standardizes terminology, and delivers a clean, organized specification ready for implementation.

Specification refactoring automatically identifies and removes obsolete sections while preserving active feature requirements. It generates migration notes documenting what changed, helping teams understand the transition and ensuring no critical requirements are lost during the consolidation process.