EliBaumgardner

Encapsulate — Development skill for Claude Code

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Lift the selected text in the editor into its own function.

How to install Encapsulate

Installs to ~/.claude/commands/elibaumgardner-refactor-tools-encapsulate.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/EliBaumgardner/refactor-tools/HEAD/.claude/commands/encapsulate.md -o ~/.claude/commands/elibaumgardner-refactor-tools-encapsulate.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Encapsulate does

description: Lift the selected text in the editor into its own function argument-hint: allowed-tools: Bash(refactor.encap:*), Read

Lift the text currently selected in the editor into a new function named `$ARGUMENTS`.

Resolve the range from the IDE selection: take its file, its start line and column and its end line and column, and make the path relative to the repo root. Columns are 1-based and both ends are inclusive, so the end column is the column of the last se

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