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name: fastapi-refactor\ndescription: Use when the user wants to restructure code while preserving behavior exactly. Establishes a passing test baseline first, then makes incremental moves that each leave the suite green. Refuses to change behavior and structure in the same step. Also known as klaussy-refactor.\nallowed-tools: Read Grep Glob Bash Edit Write

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Refactor the code the user described. The goal is to change structure while preserving behavior exactly. Do NOT change what the code does — only how it's organized.

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Phase 1: Establish the Safety Net

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Before changing any code, confirm you have tests that cover the current behavior.

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  1. Read CLAUDE.md for project structure, test commands, and conventions.
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  2. Read any .claude/rules/*.md whose paths: glob matches the area being refactored — they encode the conventions the moved code must continue to obey.
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  3. Run the existing test suite. Record the results — every test must pass before you start. If tests are failing already, stop and report that. Do not refactor code that doesn't have a passing baseline.
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  4. Assess coverage of the code you plan to change. Read the existing tests for the modules involved. If a function you're restructuring has no tests:\n\n
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Phase 2: Understand the Current Code

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Read the code you're refactoring in full. The three checks below are independent — issue them as a single batch of parallel tool calls, not sequentially:

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  1. What it does — the inputs, outputs, side effects, and edge cases. Read the file(s) in full.
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  2. Who calls it — grep for callers across the whole repo. Every caller is a contract you must preserve.
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  3. What depends on its interface — function signatures, return types, exceptions thrown, event emissions. Grep for type/import references too. These are the things you cannot change without updating all consumers.
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Phase 3: Plan the Refactor

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Design the target structure before editing.

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  1. Describe the structural change — what moves where, what gets renamed, what gets split or merged.
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  2. List what must NOT change — public interfaces, return values, side effects, error behavior. Be explicit.
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  3. Plan incremental steps. Break the refactor into the smallest possible moves that each leave the code in a working state. Never change behavior and structure in the same step. For example:\n\n
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Phase 4: Refactor

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Execute your plan. After EACH incremental step:

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  1. Run the test suite. If anything fails, your last change broke something. Fix it before moving on — do not accumulate breakage across steps.
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  2. Re-read the code to verify it looks correct.
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When a test fails mid-refactor

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Don't immediately edit the test or roll back the step. Diagnose:

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  1. Did you miss a caller? Re-grep for the symbol you moved or renamed across the whole repo (not just the immediate file). Update every match in this same step.
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  2. Did you change a signature unintentionally? Compare the new signature to the old one — argument order, default values, return type. Even a \"trivial\" rename of a kwarg breaks callers using keyword args.
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  3. Did you introduce a subtle behavior change? Re-read the moved code line-by-line against the original. Refactors break in tiny ways: a list comprehension that no longer preserves order, an early-return that now runs cleanup, a class attribute that became an instance attribute.
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Only after the test is green again move on to the next step.

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Rules

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Phase 5: Verify

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  1. Run the full test suite one final time. Every test that passed before must pass now. No exceptions.
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  2. Check your diff. Run git diff and verify:\n\n
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  3. Verify callers. Re-grep for callers of anything you moved or renamed. Confirm every reference was updated.
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  4. Report back. Say what moved and where, and that the suite matches the Phase 1 baseline.
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When NOT to use

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