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Guardrail refactor

Skill mustafa3252/vibe-ship-skills/skills/guardrail-refactor

Practical agent skills for vibe coders: move fast, verify faster, ship cleaner.

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npx -y skills add mustafa3252/vibe-ship-skills --skill guardrail-refactor

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Refactor quickly while protecting behavior, public APIs, and obvious security boundaries.

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Guardrail Refactor

What this skill does

Refactor quickly while protecting behavior, public APIs, and obvious security boundaries.

Use it when you want AI speed without the usual vibe-coding tax: vague scope, broken demos, missing tests, or code that looks done but cannot ship.

Operating mode

  1. Name the outcome — one sentence, user-visible, demoable.
  2. List constraints — stack, files to avoid, style, deadline, and non-goals.
  3. Create a tiny proof loop — test, script, screenshot, curl command, or manual checklist.
  4. Build one vertical slice — no speculative framework work.
  5. Verify out loud — report the exact command or evidence that proves the slice works.

Prompt template

Use the Guardrail Refactor skill.
Goal: <what I want built or improved>
Context: <repo/app/user/problem>
Constraints: <stack, files, time, style>
Done means: <observable proof>
Do not: <scope traps or risky changes>

Anti-patterns this skill blocks

  • Starting with a folder explosion instead of a working slice.
  • Accepting generated code without a verification loop.
  • Rewriting the app to fix one small issue.
  • Shipping a README claim that no command has proven.
  • Letting the agent hide uncertainty behind confident prose.

Done checklist

  • The request has a one-line success condition.
  • The agent knows what not to change.
  • There is at least one concrete verification step.
  • The final answer includes evidence, not vibes.

Part of Vibe Coder Skills by Mustafa — Instagram: @mustafaiscoding, X/Twitter: @mustafa30.

Gives 0 of the 12 instructions most refactoring skills give

Counted across 521 of the 525 authors here whose files we hold, read 2026-08-06

  • run tests after each changein 59 of 521, across 56 files
  • write tests before refactoringin 27 of 521, across 24 files
  • preserve external behaviorin 26 of 521, across 22 files
  • remove dead codein 25 of 521, across 24 files
  • make small incremental changesin 20 of 521, across 17 files
  • break the implementation into tiny commitsin 18 of 521, across 5 files
  • ask the user about alternative optionsin 17 of 521, across 4 files
  • create a GitHub issue with the planin 17 of 521, across 4 files
  • explore the repository to verify assertionsin 17 of 521, across 4 files
  • interview the user about the refactorin 16 of 521, across 3 files
  • check the codebase for test coveragein 16 of 521, across 3 files
  • refactor one thing at a timein 16 of 521, across 12 files

Said here and by no other author read

  • Define a one-sentence user-visible outcome
  • List project constraints and non-goals
  • Create a small proof loop
  • Build one vertical slice
  • Report exact evidence proving the slice works

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