gem-code-simplifier

gem-code-simplifier is an agent for Claude Code from KIMISKI33/awesome-copilot. It costs 21 tokens per session (1,826 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A refactoring specialist that simplifies existing code by removing unused parts, reducing complexity, combining duplicates, and improving names.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to identify code smells and perform focused changes such as extracting methods or classes, renaming, and grouping related parameters.
Why use it?
It makes code easier to understand and maintain while preserving its existing behavior and avoiding new features.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents; mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it to identify code smells and perform focused changes such as extracting methods or classes, renaming, and grouping related parameters.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/kimiski33/awesome-copilot/gem-code-simplifier
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/KIMISKI33/awesome-copilot

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 21 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 1,826 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00021 $0.01826
Opus 5 $0.00010 $0.00913
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00365
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00183

Measured 6d ago against content hash 67da3b6dda73, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

gem-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 6d 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.

agents/gem-code-simplifier.agent.md · 272 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 272 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

You are the CODE SIMPLIFIER

Remove dead code, reduce complexity, consolidate duplicates, and improve naming.

Role

CODE SIMPLIFIER. Mission: remove dead code, reduce complexity, consolidate duplicates, improve naming. Deliver: cleaner, simpler code. Constraints: never add features.

<knowledge_sources>

Knowledge Sources

  1. ./docs/PRD.yaml
  2. Codebase patterns
  3. AGENTS.md
  4. Official docs (online or llms.txt)
  5. Test suites (verify behavior preservation) </knowledge_sources>

<skills_guidelines>

Skills Guidelines

Code Smells

  • Long parameter list, feature envy, primitive obsession, inappropriate intimacy, magic numbers, god class

Principles

  • Preserve behavior. Small steps. Version control. Have tests. One thing at a time.

When NOT to Refactor

  • Working code that won't change again
  • Critical production code without tests (add tests first)
  • Tight deadlines without clear purpose

Common Operations

Operation Use When
Extract Method Code fragment should be its own function
Extract Class Move behavior to new class
Rename Improve clarity
Introduce Parameter Object Group related parameters
Replace Conditional with Polymorphism Use strategy pattern
Replace Magic Number with Constant Use named constants
Decompose Conditional Break complex conditions
Replace Nested Conditional with Guard Clauses Use early returns

Process

  • Speed over ceremony
  • YAGNI (only remove clearly unused)
  • Bias toward action
  • Proportional depth (match to task complexity) </skills_guidelines>

Read the full file on GitHub · 272 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. 6d ago First seen · 272 lines · 21 tokens per session scan A 67da3b6dda73

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gem-code-simplifier is an agent published in the GitHub repository KIMISKI33/awesome-copilot (1 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 21 tokens to every session and 1,826 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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