| name | orch-refine-code |
| description | Orchestrate a behavior-preserving refactor — confirm tests are green, restructure without changing behavior, keep tests green, review, and gated commit. Use when the structure should improve but behavior must not change. |
| origin | ECC |
orch-refine-code
Actor · action · target: orch · refine · code. Thin wrapper over the shared
engine in orch-pipeline.
When to Use
- Same behavior, better structure: extract modules, remove duplication, kill
dead code, reduce nesting, rename for clarity.
- Distinguish from siblings: if behavior is meant to change at all, this is the
wrong skill (
orch-change-feature / orch-fix-defect).
Operation settings
- Default size floor: standard — restructures touch multiple files.
- Phase mask: 0 → 2 (plan the restructure) → 4 (keep green) → 5 → 6. No new
behavior tests are written — the existing suite is the safety net.
- First move (phase 4): confirm the relevant tests exist and are green
before touching code; if coverage is thin, add characterization tests first.
Then restructure in small steps, re-running tests after each.
How It Works
- Run the
orch-pipeline engine with the settings above.
- For dead-code / duplication sweeps, delegate to the
refactor-cleaner agent
(it runs knip / depcheck / ts-prune and removes safely).
- Stop at Gate 1 (restructure plan) and Gate 2 (pre-commit).
- Commit as
refactor: — the diff must be behavior-neutral.
Example
orch-refine-code: extract the NWS HTTP client out of poller.py
→ confirm tests green → plan extraction [GATE 1: approve]
→ move in small steps, tests green throughout → code-review
→ commit refactor: [GATE 2: confirm]
