Simple Refactor
SkillDev toolsSuggest small refactors that improve readability without changing behavior. Use when a junior developer asks to clean up code.
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Then ask your AI: use the Simple Refactor skill
What this skill tells your AI
The instructions your AI receives, as published by proflead/codex-skills-library in skills/planning/simple-refactor/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.
Purpose
Suggest small refactors that improve readability without changing behavior.
Inputs to request
- Target file or function.
- Known style guide or conventions.
- Existing tests or coverage.
Workflow
- Identify duplication or overly long functions.
- Propose small extraction or naming improvements.
- Note how to validate behavior remains unchanged.
Output
- Refactor steps and safe checkpoints.
Quality bar
- Keep changes small and reversible.
- Avoid altering public interfaces.
Signals
- GitHub stars
- 144
- Forks
- 30
- Last commit
- Jul 2026
Advanced
- Catalog kind
- skill
- Gateway key
simple-refactor- Source
- github.com/proflead/codex-skills-library