modernize - Audit and plan codebase modernization
Audits an existing codebase within its current stack and produces a prioritized refactor plan for structural improvements, with optional execution handoff.
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Updated: 2026-09-29Capabilities
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What this skill does
- Classify project shape
- Delegate repository state audit
- Sample-read codebase by signal
- Assess modernization feasibility
- Group findings by theme
- Cull low-confidence refactors
- Write a refactor plan
- Hand off plan execution
Inputs
- Codebase root path
- Handoff mode
- Plan output path
- Maximum move count
- Modernization themes
- Batch execution option
- Pass-through flags
Outputs
- Modernization refactor plan
- Out-of-scope findings appendix
- Considered findings appendix
- Execution handoff invocation
Requirements
- Access to the codebase
- Codebase exceeding 500 lines
- Current platform and stack
- audit-existing skill for delegated audit
- execute-prd skill for default handoff
- batch capability for batch mode