Article Refactor Methodology

Refactor articles the way you refactor code. The source text is a monolith — tangled concerns, duplicated logic, dead code, and utility functions waiting to be extracted. The move is: pull content out into a neutral inventory, rebuild the top-level structure for the new purpose, then wire the extracted pieces back in at the right sites with the right treatment.

This skill handles heavy restructures that preserve content but change the shape of the argument. For writing from scratch, use technical-article-writing. For light editing that keeps structure intact, use technical-article-writing's revise.

The code → article metaphor