ClaudSkills / Engineering / code-quality

Incremental Refactoring

Quality score: 70/100 · Category: Engineering · Sub-category: code-quality

Use when IMPLEMENTING refactoring changes. Enforces metrics-driven protocol with before/after measurements. Triggers: "implement refactor", "apply refactoring pattern", "clean up code smell", "extract method", "move method". No exceptions for "simple" refactorings - use this. NOTE: If you need to FIND duplicates first, use duplicate-code-detector, then return here for implementation.

What this skill does

Incremental Refactoring is a production-ready Claude Code skill (quality score 70/100) in the code-quality sub-category. It ships as a SKILL.md file that Claude Code auto-discovers under ~/.claude/skills/incremental-refactoring/ and loads when your prompt matches the skill's trigger.

When to invoke it: Use when IMPLEMENTING refactoring changes. Enforces metrics-driven protocol with before/after measurements.

Who uses this skill

The Incremental Refactoring skill is built for software engineers, backend developers, full-stack teams, and technical leads building and maintaining production systems. It is part of the open ClaudSkills registry, a community-curated catalog of 15,000+ capabilities you can install for Claude Code — the Claude CLI agent.

How to install

Free

Manual install (2 steps)

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/incremental-refactoring
curl -L https://claudskills.com/skills/incremental-refactoring/SKILL.md \
  -o ~/.claude/skills/incremental-refactoring/SKILL.md

Or just download SKILL.md directly and drop it into ~/.claude/skills/incremental-refactoring/. Claude Code auto-discovers it on next session.

Skills live at ~/.claude/skills/incremental-refactoring/SKILL.md on macOS/Linux, or %USERPROFILE%\.claude\skills\incremental-refactoring\SKILL.md on Windows. See the full install guide for step-by-step instructions.

Pro

One-click install via the desktop app

The ClaudSkills desktop app installs any skill directly into ~/.claude/skills/ with one click — no terminal required. Pro starts at $9/mo or $149 lifetime.

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