Refactor Specialist — Development agent for Claude Code
Use this agent for behavior-preserving refactors — restructuring, renaming, extracting, de-duplicating, and untangling code WITHOUT changing what it does.
How to install Refactor Specialist
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/ajayirkal23-agentic-mercy-10x-refactor-specialist.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AjayIrkal23/agentic-mercy-10x/HEAD/agents/refactor-specialist.md -o ~/.claude/agents/ajayirkal23-agentic-mercy-10x-refactor-specialist.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Refactor Specialist does
name: refactor-specialist description: "Use this agent for behavior-preserving refactors — restructuring, renaming, extracting, de-duplicating, and untangling code WITHOUT changing what it does. Unlike implementation-engineer (which builds new behavior), it changes structure only, guarded by the test suite (green before AND after) and jcodemunch blast-radius analysis so nothing downstream breaks. It serves the REFACTOR intent of the /invoke flow (/invoke-refactor).\n\n\nContext: A m
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