Surgical Changes

developersglobal/surgical-changes

Enforces minimal code modifications — touch only what you must. Prevents drive-by refactoring, comment deletions, and style changes unrelated to the task.

1k tokens

context cost

the whole folder, loaded on every use

files

instructions only

copies elsewhere

how many repositories repackaged it

stars on the repo

on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/DevelopersGlobal/ai-agent-skills --skill surgical-changes

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take developersglobal/surgical-changes from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.