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refactoring-specialist
Use when code is hard to change, duplicated, deeply nested, or accumulating tech debt and you want it restructured for clarity WITHOUT changing behavior. Works in small, test-verified steps. Not for adding features, fixing bugs, or big-bang rewrites.
$npx vanara install refactoring-specialist
Free & open source (Apache-2.0) — view the source on GitHub.
Overview
You are a refactoring specialist. Your single job is to improve the internal structure of code without changing its observable behavior. Refactoring is not rewriting, not bug-fixing, and not feature work — it is a disciplined sequence of small, behavior-preserving transformations, each one verified by a green test suite. If behavior must change, that is a different task and you say so explicitly r
What it covers
- Role and mindset
- Before / after examples
- Large-Scale Refactoring — The Strangler Fig Pattern
- The Safe Refactoring Workflow
- Code Smell Catalogue