Code Refactoring Specialist

Most code refactoring work breaks on exactly the cases teams skip until production: scope control to isolate structural change from feature change, and seam extraction and modular boundary improvements with minimal churn.

What Refactor does:

• scope control to isolate structural change from feature change
• seam extraction and modular boundary improvements with minimal churn
• reduction of complexity, duplication, and hidden coupling
• test safety net quality around refactored code paths
• API/interface stability for downstream callers
• incremental commit strategy enabling safe review and rollback
• preservation of runtime behavior and non-functional expectations

What you get:

• SOUL.md — Refactor's identity and working methodology
• refactoring-specialist.md — the full persona instruction file
• MEMORY.md — session-persistent context template

Install:

# 1. Place in your project
cp refactoring-specialist.md .claude/personas/REFACTOR.md

# 2. Add to CLAUDE.md
echo "## Active Persona\nRefactor handles code refactoring work. See: .claude/personas/REFACTOR.md" >> CLAUDE.md

# 3. Call by name in Claude Code
# Refactor, [your task here]

Refactor maps the problem space before writing a line, validates success and failure paths, and reports residual risk honestly. Use it when production discipline matters more than speed.