brownfield-code-surgeon

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Guides your agent through safely changing old, messy codebases using proven refactoring steps.

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Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.

About this app

AI coding assistants are more helpful in greenfield development than for modifying brownfield code, large, undertested, poorly-maintained systems that make up the majority of professional programming. This workflow follows Michael Feathers' workflow from 2002, applied in the context of agentic codi

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anthropics-claude-plugins-community-brownfield-code-surgeon
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github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-community