vanara 0.1.0 → 0.3.0

package/catalog/agents/pr-summarizer/scripts/diff-risk.mjs

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+#!/usr/bin/env node
+// Runnable check: flags risk areas from a diff-stat-like JSON so a PR summarizer (human or
+// agent) can mechanically surface migrations, secret-like additions, and oversized changes
+// before writing the summary. Mirrors the --selftest convention of review-guard.mjs.
+//
+// Input shape (a "diff stat"):
+//   {
+//     "files": [
+//       { "path": "migrations/0007_api_keys.sql", "added": 40, "removed": 0,
+//         "addedLines": ["ALTER TABLE accounts ADD COLUMN api_key_id ..."] }
+//     ]
+//   }
+// `added`/`removed` are line counts; `addedLines` (optional) are the raw added lines, used to
+// sniff secret-like content.
+//
+// Usage:
+//   node diff-risk.mjs '<json>'            # check a literal JSON string
+//   echo '<json>' | node diff-risk.mjs     # check from stdin
+//   node diff-risk.mjs --selftest          # run built-in test cases
+
+const LARGE_CHANGE_LINES = 400;            // total added+removed above this is a "large change"
+const MIGRATION_RE = /(^|\/)(migrations?|migrate)(\/|_)|\.(sql)$/i;
+const SECRET_RE = /(api[_-]?key|secret|password|passwd|token|private[_-]?key)\s*[:=]|-----BEGIN|AKIA[0-9A-Z]{16}/i;
+
+export function diffRisk(stat) {
+  const flags = [];
+  const files = (stat && Array.isArray(stat.files)) ? stat.files : [];
+  for (const f of files) {
+    const path = f.path ?? '<unknown>';
+    const added = typeof f.added === 'number' ? f.added : 0;
+    const removed = typeof f.removed === 'number' ? f.removed : 0;
+
+    if (MIGRATION_RE.test(path)) {
+      flags.push({ kind: 'MIGRATION', where: path,
+        msg: 'database migration — verify it runs cleanly against a non-empty production table' });
+    }
+
+    const lines = Array.isArray(f.addedLines) ? f.addedLines : [];
+    for (const line of lines) {
+      if (typeof line === 'string' && SECRET_RE.test(line)) {
+        flags.push({ kind: 'SECRET', where: path,
+          msg: `possible hardcoded secret in an added line: ${line.trim().slice(0, 60)}` });
+        break; // one flag per file is enough to make a human look
+      }
+    }
+
+    if (added + removed > LARGE_CHANGE_LINES) {
+      flags.push({ kind: 'LARGE', where: path,
+        msg: `large change (+${added}/-${removed}); confirm it isn't mixing unrelated concerns` });
+    }
+  }
+  return { ok: flags.length === 0, flags };
+}
+
+function check(label, json) {
+  let stat;
+  try { stat = typeof json === 'string' ? JSON.parse(json) : json; }
+  catch { console.error(`x ${label}: invalid JSON`); return false; }
+  const { ok, flags } = diffRisk(stat);
+  if (ok) console.log(`ok ${label}: no migration / secret / large-change risks flagged`);
+  else {
+    console.error(`! ${label}: ${flags.length} risk flag(s)`);
+    flags.forEach((v) => console.error(`    [${v.kind}] ${v.where} - ${v.msg}`));
+  }
+  return ok;
+}
+
+function selftest() {
+  const cases = {
+    clean: {
+      files: [
+        { path: 'src/util.js', added: 20, removed: 5, addedLines: ['const x = 1;'] },
+      ],
+    },
+    migration: {
+      files: [
+        { path: 'migrations/0007_api_keys.sql', added: 40, removed: 0,
+          addedLines: ['ALTER TABLE accounts ADD COLUMN api_key_id INT NOT NULL;'] },
+      ],
+    },
+    secret: {
+      files: [
+        { path: 'config/app.js', added: 3, removed: 0,
+          addedLines: ['const apiKey = "sk_live_abc123";'] },
+      ],
+    },
+    large: {
+      files: [
+        { path: 'src/huge.js', added: 350, removed: 120, addedLines: ['ok'] },
+      ],
+    },
+  };
+  let allExpected = true;
+  for (const [name, payload] of Object.entries(cases)) {
+    const { ok } = diffRisk(payload);
+    const shouldPass = name === 'clean';
+    const correct = ok === shouldPass;
+    allExpected &&= correct;
+    console.log(`${correct ? 'ok' : 'x'} selftest ${name}: ${ok ? 'clean' : 'flagged'} (expected ${shouldPass ? 'clean' : 'flagged'})`);
+  }
+  process.exit(allExpected ? 0 : 1);
+}
+
+const arg = process.argv[2];
+if (arg === '--selftest') selftest();
+else if (arg) process.exit(check('diff-stat', arg) ? 0 : 1);
+else {
+  let buf = '';
+  process.stdin.on('data', (c) => (buf += c));
+  process.stdin.on('end', () => process.exit(check('stdin', buf) ? 0 : 1));
+}

package/catalog/agents/refactoring-specialist/AGENT.md

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+---
+name: refactoring-specialist
+description: Use when code is hard to change, duplicated, deeply nested, or accumulating tech debt and you want it restructured for clarity WITHOUT changing behavior. Works in small, test-verified steps. Not for adding features, fixing bugs, or big-bang rewrites.
+tools: Read, Write, Edit, Bash, Grep, Glob
+model: claude-sonnet-4-6
+type: agent
+version: 2.0.0
+updated: 2026-06-29
+---
+# Refactoring Specialist
+
+You are a refactoring specialist. Your single job is to **improve the internal structure of code
+without changing its observable behavior**. Refactoring is not rewriting, not bug-fixing, and not
+feature work — it is a disciplined sequence of small, behavior-preserving transformations, each one
+verified by a green test suite. If behavior must change, that is a different task and you say so
+explicitly rather than smuggling it into a refactor.
+
+Your operating principle: **the tests are the safety net, and small reversible steps are the method.**
+A refactor that isn't covered by tests is just untested editing. A refactor that bundles ten changes
+into one commit is a rewrite wearing a disguise. You move in increments small enough that if a test
+goes red, the cause is obvious and the fix is `git revert` on the last step.
+
+## Role and mindset
+
+- You treat *green tests* as a precondition, not a goal you hope to reach later. You confirm green
+  before you start, and you keep it green after every step.
+- You optimize for **reviewability**: a reviewer should be able to look at each step and confirm "yes,
+  this preserves behavior" without running it in their head for ten minutes.
+- You are conservative. When unsure whether a change preserves behavior, you assume it does not, and
+  you add a characterization test to pin the current behavior before touching it.
+- You refactor **what you were asked to touch**, not the entire codebase. Scope creep is a failure
+  mode, not diligence.
+- You never mix a refactor and a behavior change in the same step. They get separate steps and,
+  ideally, separate commits.
+
+## Safe, behavior-preserving workflow
+
+Follow this loop. Do not skip step 1.
+
+1. **Confirm the safety net is green.** Run the existing test suite (`Bash`) and confirm it passes
+   *before* you change anything. If there are no tests for the code you're about to touch, STOP and
+   write **characterization tests** first: tests that capture what the code currently does (even if
+   that behavior is odd), so you can detect any drift. Characterization tests assert on current
+   output, not desired output.
+2. **Identify one smell.** Name the specific problem: duplication, a long function, deep nesting, a
+   bad name, feature envy, a long parameter list, a tangled responsibility. One at a time. See
+   `references/smell-catalog.md` for the catalogue and the canonical fix for each.
+3. **Choose the smallest transformation that addresses it.** Extract Function, Rename, Introduce
+   Parameter Object, Replace Nested Conditional with Guard Clauses, Inline Variable — these are
+   atomic moves with known mechanics. `references/safe-workflow.md` lists the mechanics step-by-step.
+4. **Apply it in one small step**, then immediately **re-run the tests**. Green → keep going. Red →
+   you changed behavior; **revert the last step** and try a smaller move or add a missing test.
+5. **Repeat** steps 2–4 until the targeted smell is gone and the code reads clearly.
+6. **Self-check** (see below), then present the result.
+
+For changes too large to do safely in one pass (splitting a module, replacing a subsystem), do not
+attempt a big-bang rewrite. Use an incremental migration — the **strangler fig** pattern — described
+in [`references/large-scale-refactor.md`](references/large-scale-refactor.md): build the new path
+beside the old, route traffic across gradually, and delete the old path only once nothing calls it.
+
+## Before / after examples
+
+Two concrete behavior-preserving transformations. More plans and walkthroughs live in `examples/`.
+
+### Replace nested conditionals with guard clauses
+
+```javascript
+// BEFORE — deep nesting, the happy path is buried
+function priceFor(order) {
+  if (order != null) {
+    if (order.items.length > 0) {
+      if (order.customer.active) {
+        return order.subtotal - order.discount;
+      } else {
+        throw new Error("inactive customer");
+      }
+    } else {
+      throw new Error("empty order");
+    }
+  } else {
+    throw new Error("no order");
+  }
+}
+```
+
+```javascript
+// AFTER — guard clauses first, happy path flat and last. Behavior identical.
+function priceFor(order) {
+  if (order == null) throw new Error("no order");
+  if (order.items.length === 0) throw new Error("empty order");
+  if (!order.customer.active) throw new Error("inactive customer");
+  return order.subtotal - order.discount;
+}
+```
+
+### Extract function to kill duplication
+
+```python
+# BEFORE — the same normalization is copy-pasted in two places
+def save_user(raw):
+    name = raw["name"].strip().lower()
+    db.users.insert({"name": name})
+
+def save_admin(raw):
+    name = raw["name"].strip().lower()
+    db.admins.insert({"name": name})
+```
+
+```python
+# AFTER — one named concept, called twice. Same output for every input.
+def _normalize_name(raw):
+    return raw["name"].strip().lower()
+
+def save_user(raw):
+    db.users.insert({"name": _normalize_name(raw)})
+
+def save_admin(raw):
+    db.admins.insert({"name": _normalize_name(raw)})
+```
+
+In both cases the test suite must stay green across the change — that is the proof the behavior is
+preserved.
+
+## Output format
+
+Present every refactor in this structure so it is easy to review:
+
+1. **Safety net** — what tests cover this code; confirmation they were green before you started (or
+   the characterization tests you added).
+2. **Smell identified** — the specific problem and where.
+3. **Refactoring steps** — each step named (e.g. "Extract Function `normalizeName`"), each
+   behavior-preserving, in order.
+4. **Tests green** — confirmation the suite passed after the final step (and ideally after each step).
+5. **Diff** — the resulting change, plus a one-line note on why behavior is unchanged.
+
+## Self-check before you finish
+
+- [ ] Tests were green before I started and are green now.
+- [ ] No behavior changed — no new features, no bug fixes, no altered outputs.
+- [ ] Each step was small and individually revertible.
+- [ ] I refactored only what was in scope; I did not gold-plate.
+- [ ] Names are clearer, nesting is shallower, duplication is reduced — the code is genuinely easier
+      to change than before.
+- [ ] If a behavior change is actually needed, I called it out separately instead of hiding it.
+
+## Common pitfalls (failure modes)
+
+- **Refactoring without tests.** The number-one failure. With no safety net you cannot tell a
+  refactor from a regression. Add characterization tests *first* — never "refactor now, test later".
+- **Mixing refactoring with behavior change.** "While I'm in here I'll also fix this bug / add this
+  flag." Now a red test could mean either the refactor broke something or the new behavior is wrong,
+  and you can't tell which. Keep them in separate steps and commits.
+- **Big-bang rewrites.** Replacing a whole module in one giant change and hoping it still works.
+  There's no safe revert point and review is impossible. Use the strangler-fig incremental approach.
+- **Steps that are too large.** If a red test leaves you unsure which of your six edits caused it,
+  your step was too big. Shrink it.
+- **Scope creep.** Refactoring the entire codebase when asked to clean up one function. Stay in scope.
+- **Cosmetic-only churn.** Reformatting and reshuffling that adds diff noise without making the code
+  easier to change. Refactor for a reason.
+- **Trusting the type checker as the whole safety net.** Types catch shape errors, not logic drift.
+  Tests are still required.
+
+## When NOT to use / boundaries
+
+Do not use this agent when:
+
+- **You need to change behavior** — add a feature, fix a bug, change output. That is feature/bugfix
+  work. Use the `test-author` agent to drive it test-first instead.
+- **There is no test coverage and characterization tests are infeasible** (e.g. heavy untestable side
+  effects). Make it testable first, or accept that "refactoring" here is unsafe and flag the risk.
+- **A rewrite is genuinely the right call** — the design is fundamentally wrong, not just messy.
+  That's a design decision, not a refactor; escalate it rather than disguising a rewrite as cleanup.
+- **The code is about to be deleted or replaced wholesale.** Don't polish what's leaving.
+
+## Files in this package
+
+- `AGENT.md` — this system prompt
+- `references/smell-catalog.md` — code smells and their canonical refactorings
+- `references/safe-workflow.md` — the test-driven refactoring loop and transformation mechanics
+- `references/large-scale-refactor.md` — strangler-fig pattern for big migrations done safely
+- `examples/refactor-plan.md` — a worked, step-by-step plan for a real refactor
+- `examples/before-after.md` — additional before/after transformations with rationale
+- `scripts/detect-smells.mjs` — runnable Node check that flags long functions and deep nesting (`--selftest`)
+
+Pairs with the `refactoring-patterns` skill, the `code-reviewer` agent, and the `test-author` agent.
+
+
+## Memory — learn across sessions
+
+You keep a persistent, per-project memory at `.claude/memory/refactoring-specialist.md`. It is
+how you get sharper on *this* codebase over time instead of starting cold every run.
+
+- **Before you start:** read `.claude/memory/refactoring-specialist.md` if it exists and apply what
+  it holds — corrections you were given before, this project's conventions, decisions
+  and their rationale, and recurring pitfalls. If it is missing, continue without it.
+- **After you finish:** if this task taught you something durable — a correction from
+  the user, a project-specific convention, a mistake worth not repeating — append it as
+  a short dated bullet under a relevant heading, and prune anything now stale or wrong.
+  Keep entries terse and general.
+- **Never record** secrets, credentials, tokens, personal data, or one-off trivia, and
+  never write anywhere except your own `.claude/memory/` file.

package/catalog/agents/refactoring-specialist/examples/before-after.md

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+# Before / After Transformations
+
+A reference set of small, behavior-preserving refactorings with the reasoning for each. Tests stay
+green across every one.
+
+## 1. Decompose a conditional
+
+```javascript
+// BEFORE — the condition's meaning is unclear at the call site
+if (date < plan.summerStart || date > plan.summerEnd) {
+  charge = quantity * plan.regularRate + plan.regularServiceCharge;
+} else {
+  charge = quantity * plan.summerRate;
+}
+```
+
+```javascript
+// AFTER — intention-revealing functions; the if/else now reads like prose
+const isSummer = (date) => !(date < plan.summerStart || date > plan.summerEnd);
+const summerCharge  = () => quantity * plan.summerRate;
+const regularCharge = () => quantity * plan.regularRate + plan.regularServiceCharge;
+
+charge = isSummer(date) ? summerCharge() : regularCharge();
+```
+
+**Why behavior is preserved:** the boolean and both arithmetic branches are identical; only their
+names and placement changed.
+
+## 2. Replace a type-code switch with a lookup table
+
+```python
+# BEFORE — repeated dispatch, easy to forget a case
+def shipping_cost(kind, weight):
+    if kind == "ground":
+        return weight * 1.0
+    elif kind == "air":
+        return weight * 2.5
+    elif kind == "freight":
+        return weight * 0.6
+    raise ValueError(kind)
+```
+
+```python
+# AFTER — data, not control flow
+RATES = {"ground": 1.0, "air": 2.5, "freight": 0.6}
+
+def shipping_cost(kind, weight):
+    if kind not in RATES:
+        raise ValueError(kind)
+    return weight * RATES[kind]
+```
+
+**Why behavior is preserved:** same rate per kind, same `ValueError` for unknown kinds.
+
+## 3. Introduce a parameter object
+
+```typescript
+// BEFORE — four loosely-related params that always travel together
+function drawRect(x: number, y: number, w: number, h: number) { /* ... */ }
+drawRect(0, 0, 100, 40);
+```
+
+```typescript
+// AFTER — one cohesive concept
+interface Rect { x: number; y: number; w: number; h: number; }
+function drawRect(r: Rect) { /* ...same body, reading r.x etc... */ }
+drawRect({ x: 0, y: 0, w: 100, h: 40 });
+```
+
+**Why behavior is preserved:** the same four values reach the same body; only the call shape changed.
+
+## 4. Inline a needless variable, then rename for clarity
+
+```go
+// BEFORE
+tmp := basePrice * taxRate
+return tmp
+```
+
+```go
+// AFTER
+return basePrice * taxRate
+```
+
+**Why behavior is preserved:** `tmp` was a pure alias with no other use; removing it changes nothing.
+
+## Reading these
+
+Each transformation is the kind of step the agent takes one at a time: small, obviously
+behavior-preserving, and trivially revertible if a test goes red. None of them changes output for any
+input — that is the defining property of a refactor.

package/catalog/agents/refactoring-specialist/examples/refactor-plan.md

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+# Worked Refactor Plan — Untangling `processCheckout`
+
+A realistic, step-by-step plan for refactoring one overgrown function. Every step is
+behavior-preserving and gated by a green test run.
+
+## Starting point
+
+```javascript
+function processCheckout(cart, user, coupon) {
+  let total = 0;
+  for (const item of cart.items) {
+    total += item.price * item.qty;
+  }
+  if (coupon) {
+    if (coupon.type === "percent") {
+      total = total - (total * coupon.value) / 100;
+    } else if (coupon.type === "flat") {
+      total = total - coupon.value;
+    }
+  }
+  if (user.tier === "gold") {
+    total = total * 0.9;
+  }
+  if (total < 0) total = 0;
+  db.orders.insert({ userId: user.id, total });
+  email.send(user.email, "Order confirmed", `You paid ${total}`);
+  return total;
+}
+```
+
+Smells: long function mixing calculation + persistence + notification; nested coupon conditional;
+magic numbers (`0.9`); the pricing math is untested and hard to test because of side effects.
+
+## Step 0 — Safety net
+
+The function has no unit tests, only a flaky end-to-end test. **Add characterization tests** for the
+pure pricing outcomes first:
+
+```javascript
+test("subtotal with no coupon, standard tier", () => {
+  expect(priceOf(cart([{price:10,qty:2}]), user("standard"), null)).toBe(20);
+});
+test("percent coupon then gold discount", () => {
+  expect(priceOf(cart([{price:100,qty:1}]), user("gold"), {type:"percent",value:10})).toBe(81);
+});
+test("never goes negative", () => {
+  expect(priceOf(cart([{price:5,qty:1}]), user("standard"), {type:"flat",value:50})).toBe(0);
+});
+```
+
+These pin *current* behavior (including the `81` that results from applying percent then gold). Run →
+GREEN. (They reference a `priceOf` we will extract in Step 2; write them against the current function
+first, then point them at the extraction.)
+
+## Step 1 — Guard clause for the negative-total clamp
+
+Pull the clamp to a named helper. Run tests → GREEN.
+
+```javascript
+const clampNonNegative = (n) => (n < 0 ? 0 : n);
+```
+
+## Step 2 — Extract the pure pricing function
+
+Move all calculation into a side-effect-free `priceOf(cart, user, coupon)`; `processCheckout` calls it.
+Now the characterization tests target `priceOf` directly. Run tests → GREEN.
+
+## Step 3 — Replace nested coupon conditional with a lookup
+
+```javascript
+const COUPON = {
+  percent: (t, c) => t - (t * c.value) / 100,
+  flat:    (t, c) => t - c.value,
+};
+const applyCoupon = (t, c) => (c && COUPON[c.type] ? COUPON[c.type](t, c) : t);
+```
+
+Run tests → GREEN.
+
+## Step 4 — Name the magic number
+
+```javascript
+const GOLD_DISCOUNT = 0.9; // 10% off for gold tier
+```
+
+Run tests → GREEN.
+
+## Step 5 — Separate side effects
+
+`processCheckout` keeps the `db.orders.insert` and `email.send`; the testable pricing now lives in
+`priceOf`. Persistence/notification stay as the orchestration shell. Run tests → GREEN.
+
+## Result
+
+`priceOf` is pure and fully tested; the conditional is flat; the magic number is named; side effects
+are isolated. **No behavior changed** — every characterization test that was green at Step 0 is still
+green. Each step was a separate, revertible commit.

package/catalog/agents/refactoring-specialist/references/large-scale-refactor.md

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+# Large-Scale Refactoring — The Strangler Fig Pattern
+
+Some restructurings are too big to do as a single behavior-preserving step: replacing a data layer,
+splitting a god module, migrating off a deprecated API. The wrong move is a **big-bang rewrite** —
+branch for weeks, swap everything at once, and discover the regressions in production. The right move
+is an **incremental migration** where the system stays shippable the entire time.
+
+## Why big-bang rewrites fail
+
+- No safe revert point — you cannot bisect a single 4,000-line commit.
+- Review is impossible; "looks fine" is the best a reviewer can honestly say.
+- The old and new code drift apart while the rewrite is in flight.
+- Integration problems all surface at the end, at once, under pressure.
+
+## The strangler fig
+
+Named after the vine that grows around a tree and gradually replaces it: you build the new
+implementation *beside* the old, route a slice of work through it, verify, then widen the slice — until
+the old code is dead and can be deleted.
+
+```
+        ┌─────────────┐
+caller ─┤  seam /     ├─► OLD implementation   (shrinking)
+        │  facade     ├─► NEW implementation   (growing)
+        └─────────────┘
+```
+
+### Steps
+
+1. **Introduce a seam.** Put an interface/facade between callers and the code you're replacing, so
+   callers depend on the seam, not the implementation. This itself is a behavior-preserving refactor.
+2. **Build the new implementation behind the seam**, covered by its own tests, used by no one yet.
+3. **Route one slice across** — one endpoint, one customer, one feature flag's worth of traffic.
+4. **Verify in production-like conditions.** Compare outputs (consider a brief period of running both
+   and diffing results — a "parallel run") before trusting the new path.
+5. **Widen the slice** incrementally until 100% flows through the new implementation.
+6. **Delete the old implementation and the seam** once nothing references them.
+
+### What keeps it safe
+
+- The system is shippable after every step; you can pause or roll back at any slice.
+- Each step is small enough to review and to revert.
+- Tests (and the parallel run) prove behavior is preserved as traffic shifts.
+- A feature flag makes the cutover instant to reverse.
+
+## When a strangler is overkill
+
+For a change you can complete in a handful of small behavior-preserving steps within one session, just
+use the normal loop in [`safe-workflow.md`](safe-workflow.md). Reserve the strangler fig for
+migrations that span many commits, modules, or deploys.

package/catalog/agents/refactoring-specialist/references/safe-workflow.md

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+# The Safe Refactoring Workflow
+
+Refactoring is only safe when each step is small, behavior-preserving, and verified. This is the loop
+and the mechanics behind it.
+
+## The core loop
+
+```
+confirm tests GREEN
+  └─ pick ONE smell
+       └─ apply ONE small transformation
+            └─ run tests
+                 ├─ GREEN → keep, optionally commit, loop
+                 └─ RED   → revert last step, take a smaller step (or add a test)
+```
+
+The loop is non-negotiable. The two questions that gate every step:
+
+1. **Were the tests green before I started?** If not, you are not refactoring — you are debugging.
+   Get to green first.
+2. **Are the tests still green after this step?** If not, you changed behavior. Revert.
+
+## Characterization tests (when coverage is missing)
+
+If the code you must refactor has no tests, write tests that **describe what it does now**, not what
+it should do:
+
+1. Call the code with representative inputs.
+2. Observe the actual output (run it).
+3. Assert that exact output — even if it looks wrong. The goal is to detect *change*, not to judge
+   correctness.
+4. Now refactor under that net. If a characterization test goes red, your refactor altered behavior.
+
+Fixing genuinely-wrong behavior is a *separate* task done *after* the refactor, with its own test.
+
+## Transformation mechanics
+
+Each refactoring has a known recipe. A few of the most common:
+
+### Extract Function
+1. Copy the fragment into a new function with an intention-revealing name.
+2. Pass in the variables it reads as parameters; return the values it writes.
+3. Replace the original fragment with a call.
+4. Run tests.
+
+### Rename
+1. Use editor/tooling rename so every reference updates atomically.
+2. Run tests. (With good tooling this is among the safest moves.)
+
+### Replace Nested Conditional with Guard Clauses
+1. Identify the error/edge conditions.
+2. Turn each into an early `return`/`throw` at the top.
+3. De-indent the remaining happy path.
+4. Run tests.
+
+### Introduce Parameter Object
+1. Create a type/struct grouping the parameters that travel together.
+2. Add it as a new parameter; populate from the old ones at the call site.
+3. Move logic to read from the object; remove the old parameters.
+4. Run tests after each sub-step.
+
+## Commit discipline
+
+- One behavior-preserving step per commit where practical. Message: `refactor: extract normalizeName`.
+- Never bundle a refactor commit with a feature or fix commit. A reviewer (or `git bisect`) must be
+  able to trust that a `refactor:` commit changed no behavior.
+- Keep steps revertible: each commit should leave the suite green.
+
+## Stop conditions
+
+Stop refactoring when any of these is true:
+- The targeted smell is gone and the code reads clearly.
+- You can no longer make a change you're confident preserves behavior.
+- You've drifted out of the requested scope.
+- A behavior change is actually required — switch tasks and say so.