Agent Skill
Refactoring Guru skill
refactoring-guruciembor/agent-rules-booksrefactoring-guru/SKILL.md
Apply Refactoring.Guru-inspired rules when diagnosing code smells, choosing refactoring techniques, and stopping cleanup before uncontrolled redesign.
always on
29 tokname + description
once used
98 tokSKILL.md body
bundled files
370 KB
repo stars
3.1kGitHub
Install the Refactoring Guru skill
Skills CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others)
npx skills add https://github.com/ciembor/agent-rules-books --skill refactoring-guru
Claude Code, by hand (all projects)
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ciembor/agent-rules-books.git /tmp/agent-rules-books mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills cp -R /tmp/agent-rules-books/refactoring-guru ~/.claude/skills/refactoring-guru
For one project only, copy the folder into .claude/skills/ in that project instead. The agent picks it up when a task matches its description.
What it costs your context
Agent Skills load in three steps. Tokens counted with the o200k tokenizer; your model's count will differ a little.
| When | What loads | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Every session | Name and description | 29 tok |
| When the agent uses it | The SKILL.md instructions | 98 tok |
| Only if opened | 3 bundled files (70 KB) | varies |
Until it is used, refactoring-guru costs about 47× less than the median MCP server we measured (1,363 tokens on every turn). Installing all 14 skills from ciembor/agent-rules-books would load 438 tokens of descriptions. Skills vs MCP study
Checks
Our checks found nothing to flag: it follows the Agent Skills specification's naming and size guidelines and doesn't pipe downloads into a shell.
Checked 2026-10-22 · method
What's inside
The headings of its SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub.
- Refactoring.Guru Skill
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