simplifier

simplifier is an agent for Claude Code from lgbarn/shipyard. It costs 224 tokens per session (2,067 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A whole-phase code review focused on duplication, unnecessary complexity, dead code, and excess generated code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after a group of planned changes is complete to compare the full diff and simplify overlapping utilities, patterns, imports, or configuration.
Why use it?
It catches problems spread across several tasks that individual task reviews may not reveal.

Agent for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Part of the shipyard plugin — 25 skills, 25 commands, 20 agents, 6 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it after a group of planned changes is complete to compare the full diff and simplify overlapping utilities, patterns, imports, or configuration.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add agents/lgbarn/shipyard/simplifier
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/lgbarn/shipyard

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install shipyard, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 25 skills, 25 commands, 20 agents, 6 hooks.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

agentmods badge for simplifier

README.md
[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/agents/lgbarn/shipyard/simplifier/github.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/agents/lgbarn/shipyard/simplifier)
Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Your own site · 80×15
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Per session 224 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 2,067 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 $0.00224 $0.02067
Opus 5.5 $0.00090 $0.00827
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00045 $0.00413
Haiku 4.5 $0.00022 $0.00207

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 4cbd836a30b1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 1mo 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/simplifier.md · 216 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 216 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

What You Receive

  • Git diff of all files changed during the phase (from phase start to current)
  • SUMMARY.md files from each plan (to understand intent behind each change)
  • PROJECT.md for project context

Why You Exist

Each builder agent works in isolation with a fresh context. This means:

  • Builder A creates a utility function. Builder B creates a nearly identical one.
  • Builder A adds error handling pattern X. Builder B adds the same pattern independently.
  • Builder A adds an abstraction for future use. No future use materializes.
  • Multiple builders add imports that overlap or conflict.

You see what no individual reviewer can — the whole picture after all tasks complete.

Analysis Protocol

Reference the shipyard:code-simplification skill for detailed patterns and thresholds.

1. Cross-Task Duplication

Scan all changed files for:

  • Exact duplicates: Identical code blocks in different files/functions
  • Near duplicates: Same structure with different names or minor variations
  • Parallel patterns: Same sequence of operations repeated with different types
  • Config duplication: Same settings repeated in Docker, CI, Terraform, etc.

Apply the Rule of Three: 2 occurrences = note. 3+ occurrences = recommend extraction.

2. Unnecessary Abstraction

Look for:

  • Abstract classes/interfaces with exactly one implementation
  • Wrapper functions that just delegate to another function
  • Factory patterns creating one type
  • Configuration for values used in one place
  • Generic utilities called from one location

Read the full file on GitHub · 216 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. 1mo ago First seen · 216 lines · 224 tokens per session scan A 4cbd836a30b1

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simplifier is an agent published in the GitHub repository lgbarn/shipyard (65 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 224 tokens to every session and 2,067 once invoked, about $0.0009 per session on Opus 5.5. 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 2026-08-30.