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Examples & templates

Use these copy-ready templates to accelerate team onboarding, policy standardization, and CI automation.

Time: 13 minAudience: Developers and platform maintainers

Template: refactor.consti baseline

This template provides secure key interpolation, provider defaults, and constitution guidance suitable for most repositories.

refactor.consti template

# refactor.consti
version: 1

settings:
  developer_key: ${REFACTOR_API_KEY}
  mode: cloud_managed
  provider: cloud
  model_id: managed-default
  publish_mode: pr_only
  gate_mode: strict
  max_alerts_per_run: 5
  exclude:
    - node_modules
    - .next
    - "*.lock"
---

# Design Constitution
## Architecture
Keep business logic and transport logic separated.

## Testing
Behavior-changing refactors must include or update tests.

## Error Handling
All network calls require explicit timeout and retry strategy.

Template: external developer bootstrap

Use this script in onboarding sessions to get new developers authenticated and running quickly against hosted infrastructure.

Hosted platform bootstrap flow

export REFACTOR_PLATFORM_URL=https://reactorai.codes
export REFACTOR_API_KEY=<developer-key-from-dashboard>

refactor login --key "$REFACTOR_API_KEY"
refactor init
refactor review .
refactor code .
refactor status

Template: CI guardrail script

Integrate this script into pull request checks to enforce strict secret and configuration policy before merge.

CI quality and secret checks

#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -euo pipefail

python -m pip install --upgrade refactor
export REFACTOR_PLATFORM_URL=https://reactorai.codes
export REFACTOR_API_KEY="$REACTORAI_DEVELOPER_KEY"

refactor whoami
refactor check --strict
refactor review .