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Found 33 Skills
Scan codebases for technical debt, score severity, track trends, and generate prioritized remediation plans. Use when users mention tech debt, code quality, refactoring priority, debt scoring, cleanup sprints, or code health assessment. Also use for legacy code modernization planning and maintenance cost estimation.
Expert in understanding and navigating legacy codebases. Covers code archaeology techniques, finding hidden knowledge, mapping dependencies, and extracting understanding from code without documentation. Knows how to read the stories that old code tells. Use when "legacy code, old codebase, understand this code, archaeology, what does this do, no documentation, ancient code, " mentioned.
Manages the graceful decommissioning of underused or high-maintenance features. Plans deprecation cycles, handles data archiving, and generates migration paths for legacy users.
Enforce Pythonic standards using Black, Isort, and Flake8. Use to ensure consistency across large Python codebases and team environments.
Apply systematic code refactoring with small steps, clear boundaries, and proven techniques. Use when improving existing code, reducing technical debt, cleaning up legacy code, or when user mentions refactoring, code cleanup, or code improvement.
Systematic code refactoring following Martin Fowler's catalog. Methodologies: characterization tests, Red-Green-Refactor, incremental transformation. Capabilities: SOLID compliance, DRY cleanup, code smell detection, complexity reduction, legacy modernization, design patterns, functional programming patterns. Actions: refactor, extract, inline, rename, move, simplify code. Keywords: refactor, SOLID, DRY, code smell, complexity, extract method, inline, rename, move, clean code, technical debt, legacy code, design pattern, characterization test, Red-Green-Refactor, functional programming, higher-order function, immutability, pure function, composition, currying, side effects. Use when: improving code quality, reducing technical debt, applying SOLID principles, fixing DRY violations, removing code smells, modernizing legacy code, applying design patterns.
Precise, instant code structure queries for active development — answer 'who depends on this interface before I refactor it', 'how many modules break if I change this', 'what is the real impact radius of this feature change', 'which module is the true high-coupling hotspot in this legacy codebase'. Essential before any interface change, continuous refactoring task, sprint work estimation, or when navigating unfamiliar or large legacy codebases. Requires Python 3.10+ and shell. Use nexus-mapper instead when building a full .nexus-map/ knowledge base.
Generate feature specifications by analyzing existing source code.
Enforce and guide the Mikado Method when a developer is refactoring, restructuring, or dealing with legacy code. Use this skill whenever the user mentions refactoring, technical debt, legacy code, code restructuring, dependency untangling, or "breaking everything" when making changes. Also trigger when the user wants to make a large change safely, asks how to split a big refactoring task, wants to work on main branch without a long-lived feature branch, or asks how to incrementally improve a codebase. The skill enforces the full Mikado loop: goal → naive attempt → map prerequisites → revert → implement leaves → commit → repeat.
Generate a SYSTEM_OVERVIEW.md that orients a senior engineer new to an unfamiliar codebase, with a Mermaid architecture diagram, a sequence diagram for data flow, and a legacy-pattern assessment. Use when user says 'give me a system overview', 'onboard me on this repo', 'walk me into this legacy codebase', 'document the high-level architecture', or 'create a SYSTEM_OVERVIEW.md'. Do NOT use for code walkthroughs (use explain), persistent architecture chapters (use arc42), or ADRs (use document-decision).
Systematic framework for resurrecting and modernizing legacy codebases through archaeology, resurrection, and rejuvenation phases. Activate on "legacy code", "inherited codebase", "no documentation", "technical debt", "resurrect", "modernize". NOT for greenfield projects or well-documented active codebases.
Simplify code and remove legacy/backcompat shims while preserving behavior. Use when asked to clean up or simplify code.