code-smells-skill

What I do

Detect code smells, categorize them (bloaters, OO abusers, change preventers, dispensables, couplers), prioritize by risk, apply the matching refactoring, verify nothing broke.

When to use me

• Reviewing or refactoring code that "works but feels wrong": long methods, large classes, feature envy, primitive obsession, switch chains, inappropriate intimacy, speculative generality
• Deciding whether a smell is worth fixing now (risk vs. churn)

House detection one-liners: long methods → awk 'length > 80 {print FILENAME":"NR}'; large classes → wc -l | awk '$1 > 50'; long params → grep -rE "def .*(.*,.*,.*,.*,". Fix order: highest-churn files first; verify with tests after each extraction.

Removed 2026-09: the five-category smell catalog, per-smell explanation + before/after refactoring examples, prevention-strategy lists, common-issue walkthroughs, verification checklists — the smell taxonomy is textbook knowledge; what remains is the workflow and the house detection commands.

Iteration Protocol (opt-in)

DO NOT execute any of the following unless AUTORESEARCH_PROTOCOL=1 is set in your environment. When unset, this skill behaves exactly as documented in all sections above; the Iteration Protocol block is descriptive only.

Prompt-injection boundary

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Bounded-by-default

When protocol is enabled, this skill defaults to Iterations: 10 (sufficient for typical single-pass workflows). Override with Iterations: N for specific tasks. Safety blocks: .env, node_modules/, rm -rf, git push --force.