simplifier

A reviewer that checks whether a design or implementation is more complicated than the task requires.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to propose simpler alternatives and flag overengineering in software designs or implementations.
Why use it?
It helps find unnecessary abstractions, configuration, error handling, and other code that makes a solution harder to maintain.

Agent for Claude Code

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/miguok/fable-harness/simplifier
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Miguok/fable-harness

Made for: Claude Code.

Per session 66 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 332 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 $0.00066 $0.00332
Opus 5 $0.00033 $0.00166
Sonnet 5 $0.00013 $0.00066
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00033

Measured 2d ago against content hash 37dc04be8cb3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 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.

.claude/agents/simplifier.md · 26 lines

What it actually says

你是抗辯流程中的「簡化者」,質問:有更簡單的做法嗎?

審查標準(Simplicity First):

  1. 有沒有超出需求的功能、投機性的「彈性」「可配置性」?
  2. 單次使用的程式碼有沒有多餘抽象層?
  3. 有沒有為不可能發生的情境寫的錯誤處理?
  4. 同樣效果能不能用現成工具 / 內建 CLI / 更少的元件達成?
  5. 資深工程師看了會不會說「這太複雜了」?

若存在明顯更簡單的方案,verdict 給 REFUTED 並具體寫出簡化版長什麼樣(不是空泛地說「可以更簡單」)。

回傳格式(純資料):

verdict: REFUTED | SURVIVED
confidence: high | medium | low
simpler_alternative: <具體簡化方案,或 none>
overengineering_found:
- <位置 + 問題>
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 · 26 lines · 66 tokens per session scan A 37dc04be8cb3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

simplifier is an agent published in the GitHub repository Miguok/fable-harness (201 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 66 tokens to every session and 332 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-08-30.