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name: run-recipe-driven-codebase-migrations-and-framework-b78b73ed01f6
slug: "run-recipe-driven-codebase-migrations-and-framework-upgrades-with-reviewable-diffs-through-openrewrite"
description: "Apply reusable refactoring recipes to large codebases so framework upgrades and codemods happen as auditable, reviewable changes."
github_stars: 3395
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://github.com/openrewrite/rewrite"
author: "OpenRewrite"
publisher_type: "organization"
category: "Templates & Workflows"
framework: "Multi-Framework"
tool_ecosystem:
  github_repo: "openrewrite/rewrite"
  github_stars: 3395
  npm_package: "@openrewrite/rewrite"
  npm_weekly_downloads: 26331
---

# Run recipe-driven codebase migrations and framework upgrades with reviewable diffs through OpenRewrite

Apply reusable refactoring recipes to large codebases so framework upgrades and codemods happen as auditable, reviewable changes.

## Prerequisites

Java, Gradle or Maven

## Installation

Basic usage or getting-started notes:
- It consists of an auto-refactoring engine that runs prepackaged, open source refactoring recipes for common framework migrations, security fixes, and stylistic consistency tasks—reducing your coding effort from hours...
- [Moderne](https://www.moderne.io/) is a commercial platform designed to run the OpenRewrite recipe catalog with incredible efficiency, supporting large codebases and multiple repositories. It’s a place where platform...
- Moderne freely runs an [open public service](https://www.moderne.io/try-moderne) for the benefit of tens of thousands of open source projects. The platform can streamline your recipe customization and creation, enabli...

- Source: https://github.com/openrewrite/rewrite
- Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/openrewrite/rewrite/HEAD/README.md

## Documentation

- https://docs.openrewrite.org/

## Source

- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/run-recipe-driven-codebase-migrations-and-framework-upgrades-with-reviewable-diffs-through-openrewrite/)


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License: MIT
License information: https://opensource.org/license/mit
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# Mega AI Hub resource metadata

Creator / publisher: agentskillexchange
Original project: https://github.com/agentskillexchange/skills/blob/7964af467fccaf7d68a4b705bb2e26081fbdd3e8/skills/run-recipe-driven-codebase-migrations-and-framework-upgrades-with-reviewable-diffs-through-openrewrite/SKILL.md
Attribution basis: Source repository record

Fields of work: Development & Engineering
Roles: Backend Developer, DevOps / SRE, Full-Stack Developer
Specialties: Backend
Tools: GitHub, Openrewrite
Country applicability: Country not specified
Classification basis: Source catalog labels
Instruction SHA-256: 79dda3b1f723fb7b83a5e511176aa74feff284aed8c4abe20a19d1f6d74dd185