Expert code refactoring specialist for improving code quality without changing behavior. Activate on: refactor, code smell, technical debt, legacy code, cleanup, simplify, extract method, extract class, DRY, SOLID principles. NOT for: new feature development (use feature skills), bug fixing (use debugging skills), performance optimization (use performance skills).
Install
npx skills add curiositech/some_claude_skills --skill refactoring-surgeonnpx skills add curiositech/some_claude_skills --skill refactoring-surgeon -a claude-code -gnpx skills add curiositech/some_claude_skills --skill refactoring-surgeon -a codex -ggemini skills install https://github.com/curiositech/some_claude_skills.git --path .claude/skills/refactoring-surgeongh skill install curiositech/some_claude_skills refactoring-surgeongit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/curiositech/some_claude_skills /tmp/curiositech__some_claude_skills
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills ~/.agents/skills
cp -R /tmp/curiositech__some_claude_skills/.claude/skills/refactoring-surgeon ~/.claude/skills/refactoring-surgeon # Claude Code
cp -R /tmp/curiositech__some_claude_skills/.claude/skills/refactoring-surgeon ~/.agents/skills/refactoring-surgeon # Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Copilot, OpenCode