Refactor

This is a five-agent pipeline that handles refactoring with actual safety gates. Phoenix analyzes your code for smells and risks, plan-agent breaks the work into small reversible steps, kraken implements the changes, plan-reviewer checks you didn't break behavior, and arbiter runs your full test suite. The step-by-step approach is smart for large refactors where you want to catch issues early rather than debug a massive diff later. It assumes you have decent test coverage to begin with, otherwise the validation phase won't catch much. The dry-run and step-by-step flags are nice if you want to preview the plan or approve each change individually before moving forward.

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Install

$ npx -y skills add parcadei/continuous-claude-v3 --skill refactor --agent claude-code

Installs into .claude/skills of the current project.

Files

/refactor - Refactoring Workflow

Safe refactoring with review gates.

When to Use

"Refactor X"
"Clean up this code"
"Extract this into a module"
"Improve the architecture of Y"
Large-scale code restructuring
Technical debt reduction

Workflow Overview

┌──────────┐    ┌────────────┐    ┌──────────┐    ┌──────────┐    ┌───────────┐
│ phoenix  │───▶│   plan-    │───▶│  kraken  │───▶│plan-reviewer│───▶│ arbiter  │
│          │    │   agent    │    │          │    │          │    │           │
└──────────┘    └────────────┘    └──────────┘    └──────────┘    └───────────┘
  Analyze         Plan             Implement       Review          Verify
  current         changes          refactor        changes         tests pass