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Here's what I'd like:

For the AIs to interface with the rich existing toolset for refactoring code from the pre-AI era.

E.g., if it decides to rename a function, it resorts to grepping and fixing all usages 'manually', instead of invoking traditional static code analysis tools to do the change.

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My team and I have done a lot of research on this. In essence, what’s missing is MCP-type access to the language servers. There’s a couple of people doing this but nobody’s really building on top of this because the current janky way works, it’s a hard problem, and it’s not easily monetizable. But yes, it’s definitely the correct thing that needs to happen at some point. Unlikely to get popular until coding agents natively support it.

You can achieve exactly that with a Skill. Call it "refactoring" and drop in a few paragraphs and explanations of how to use a tool like ast-grep.

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