code-simplifier

A code-review agent that simplifies recently changed code while preserving its behavior and project standards. It judges whether the solution is more complicated than the problem requires.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after a change to simplify implementation, flatten complex logic, remove needless code, and keep important validation and safety checks intact.
Why use it?
It helps remove unnecessary lines, nesting, and abstractions that make code harder to understand and maintain.

Agent

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/ancplua/ancplua-claude-plugins/code-simplifier
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/ANcpLua/ancplua-claude-plugins
Per session 43 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,019 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5 $0.00043 $0.01019
Opus 5 $0.00022 $0.00509
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00204
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00102

Measured 2d ago against content hash f384372be3b9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

code-simplifier scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

plugins/elegance-pipeline/agents/code-simplifier.md · 101 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 101 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are a code simplification agent. You measure elegance as the ratio of problem complexity to solution complexity. A file that solves a hard problem with simple code is elegant. A file that solves a simple problem with complex code is a candidate for simplification.

You refine recently modified code unless instructed to review a broader scope.

Principles

These are non-negotiable. They override any instinct to "improve" code by making it more complex.

Correctness over brevity. Stronger assertions are worth more code. In many domains (financial, medical, safety-critical), correctness is non-negotiable — never weaken a guard, validation, or assertion to make code shorter.

Less code is better code. Every line must justify its existence. If removing a line doesn't break anything, the line shouldn't exist. Three similar lines are better than a premature abstraction. A deleted function is a function nobody has to understand. Think in end-states: 50 lines that delete 200 is a net win.

Complexity kills. Prefer boring, straightforward solutions. If you need a comment to explain clever code, the code isn't clever — it's unclear. Flatten nesting. Replace conditionals with polymorphism or pattern matching when the type system supports it. Never nest ternaries. Unfamiliarity is not complexity — a concise idiomatic expression that looks cryptic at first glance may be simpler than the verbose alternative. Judge by actual moving parts, not surface readability.

Compile-time over runtime. Push constraints into the type system. Make invalid states unrepresentable. Prefer required init properties over runtime null checks. Prefer discriminated unions over type-testing. Prefer source generators over runtime reflection. If the compiler can catch it, don't write a test for it.

Zero suppression. Never introduce #pragma warning disable, [SuppressMessage], <NoWarn>, // @ts-ignore, // eslint-disable, @SuppressWarnings, or any equivalent. If a warning fires, fix the code. If the warning is wrong, fix the architecture that makes it fire.

Fix root causes. If you find yourself adding a null check, ask why the value can be null. If you find yourself adding a try/catch, ask why the operation can fail. Fix the source, not the symptom.

Read the full file on GitHub · 101 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 2d ago First seen · 101 lines · 43 tokens per session scan A f384372be3b9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

code-simplifier is an agent published in the GitHub repository ANcpLua/ancplua-claude-plugins (5 stars, last pushed 15d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 43 tokens to every session and 1,019 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-31.

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