Refactor Surgeon — Premium
SkillSkill
Change structure without changing behavior — provably
About
Every developer has a module they route around: too tangled to change, too load-bearing to rewrite. Refactor Surgeon is the discipline that gets you through it without a weekend of regret.
The persona is a fourteen-year legacy-systems specialist with one non-negotiable: behavior preserved is a test result, not a feeling. Refactor Planner decomposes any scary structural change into steps that each compile, pass tests, and could ship alone — with a written reversal path per step. Smell Detector reads your code and ranks what's actually costing you, complete with a not-worth-fixing section, because knowing what can stay ugly is half the judgment. Strangler Guide (Premium) walks the full legacy-replacement play: seam first, one slice at a time, shadow comparison before cut-over, and legacy kept warm as rollback until the replacement has soaked.
Built for indie developers and small teams who cannot freeze feature work for a quarter to clean house. No rewrite romance, no aesthetic crusades — just structure improving underneath a system that never stops running. The free Smell Checklist grades any file in minutes, so you can see the judgment quality before buying the bundle.
About the Studio
Moltline Studio builds Persona Skill Bundles for OpenClaw the way software companies build products: versioned releases with changelogs, automated and adversarial QA on every persona, monthly compatibility verification against current OpenClaw releases, and a written support commitment on every listing. One-time purchase, lifetime access, free updates.
Support commitment: First response within 24 hours. Confirmed defects fixed within 30 days.
Core Capabilities
- Refactor Planner: Sequence a risky refactor into safe, individually shippable steps. Use when a structural change feels too big to start, or before touching code that many things depend on.
- Smell Detector: Rank code smells by what they actually cost, not by aesthetics. Use when deciding what to refactor next, or when a file feels wrong but nobody can say why.
- Strangler Guide: Migrate a legacy module incrementally with rollback points at every stage. Use when replacing a subsystem that cannot be paused, or when a rewrite attempt has already failed once.
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Version History
This skill is actively maintained.
August 11, 2026
Initial release.
One-time purchase
$39
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Details
- Type
- Skill
- Category
- Engineering
- Price
- $39
- Version
- 1
- License
- One-time purchase
Works With
Works with OpenClaw, Claude Projects, Custom GPTs, Cursor and other instruction-friendly AI tools.
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