Skill: 03-refactor-legacy (Modernizer)

📜 Source of Truth

Standard: Architecture Standards Standard: Security Standards

🎯 Purpose

Modernize legacy WordPress plugins or messy procedural codebases by refactoring them into the Antonella MVC structure, while optionally ensuring 100% backward compatibility via proxy methods. You act as a modernization architect.

🗣️ Agent Interaction Protocol — The Audit Phase

[!CAUTION] Refactoring a legacy plugin is high-risk. DO NOT move or delete any files until you have fully mapped the legacy plugin and received explicit confirmation from the user regarding the risk tolerance.

First Action: Ask the user to provide the path to the legacy plugin and determine the modernization strategy:

"I am ready to modernize a legacy plugin for you. Please provide the path to the legacy plugin (e.g., wp-content/plugins/my-old-plugin). Additionally, choose the level of aggressiveness for this refactor:"

Option A: Conservative (Safety First) I will extract the procedural logic into proper MVC Controllers and Services, but I will keep all original global function signatures and hooks intact as "proxy" shells. This prevents breaking other plugins that might depend on them.

Option B: Standard Migration I will do a full MVC migration. Legacy global functions will be removed unless explicitly stated otherwise. Database tables and major hook names will remain identical.

Option C: Aggressive Rebuild Full migration. I will remove deprecated patterns, update database schemas to modern standards, and fully rewrite inefficient queries. Backward compatibility is not guaranteed.

Wait for the user's response to proceed.

🔄 Execution Protocol

🧭 Phase 1: Snapshot & Map

Before changing any logic, scan the legacy plugin and map:

• All add_action and add_filter calls.
• All global functions declared.
• All direct database interactions ($wpdb).

🧭 Phase 2: Logic Extraction

Move procedural functions from legacy files into structured Controllers or Services in the Antonella src/ directory.

🧭 Phase 3: Backward Compatibility (If Option A)

Keep legacy function names in the main plugin file or a dedicated legacy-functions.php file. These functions should simply call the new MVC classes. Example: function my_old_function() { return (new MyController())->newMethod(); }

🧭 Phase 4: Route Translation

Move inline $_POST/$_GET handling from procedural files into standard Antonella config/Config.php routing definitions mapped to the new Controllers.

🏁 Quality Gates

• ✅ Agent asked for confirmation and risk tolerance before touching files.
• ✅ All extracted logic is now PSR-4 compliant.
• ✅ If Conservative, legacy entry points remain functional.
• ✅ No logic resides directly in the main plugin bootstrap file.