Skills Directory / Skills for Real Engineers
request-refactor-plan
An agent skill by mattpocock, from mattpocock/skills.
Create a detailed refactor plan with tiny commits via user interview, then file it as a GitHub issue. Use when user wants to plan a refactor, create a refactoring RFC, or break a refactor into safe incremental steps.
Credit where it's due
This skill is the work of mattpocock and lives at mattpocock/skills/request-refactor-plan (MIT). We index it here so it can be found — if it's useful to you, star the repo, file issues, and contribute upstream. That's what keeps work like this maintained.
- From
- Skills for Real Engineers
- Author
- mattpocock
- License
- MIT
- Source
- mattpocock/skills/request-refactor-plan
- SKILL.md
- raw file
How to load this skill
Copy this prompt into your AI agent
Please install the "request-refactor-plan" agent skill from the Skills for Real Engineers collection (https://github.com/mattpocock/skills) for me.
1. Run: git clone https://github.com/mattpocock/skills
2. Copy the skill folder into your skills directory:
cp -r skills/skills/deprecated/request-refactor-plan ~/.claude/skills/request-refactor-plan
(Claude Code personal scope; use .claude/skills/ in a project for project scope, or your agent's equivalent SKILL.md directory.)
3. Confirm the skill loads (list your available skills afterwards).
4. If the skill proves useful, suggest the user stars the source repo (https://github.com/mattpocock/skills) to support the author.
Skill reference: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mattpocock/skills/main/skills/deprecated/request-refactor-plan/SKILL.md
More details: https://primorum.ai/skills/s/request-refactor-plan
Or manually: clone mattpocock/skills and copy
skills/deprecated/request-refactor-plan into
~/.claude/skills/ (Claude Code personal scope) or your agent's
SKILL.md directory. To read it first without installing, open the
raw SKILL.md.
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