Use 'Hard Cut' Agent Skill to Clean Up Code Legacy
kevinkern · x · 2026-08-19
Introduces the "Hard Cut" agent skill to address the issue where coding agents are too conservative during refactoring (e.g., keeping old field aliases or dual parsers). This method instructs the agent to forcefully update all producers, consumers, tests, and docs to the final state and delete compatibility code. It is suitable for thorough cleanup of internal codebases. The skill is open-sourced on GitHub.
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