code-simplifier

A code-simplicity review agent that looks for clearer, more maintainable code without changing its behavior. It runs after checks for correctness, security, tests, errors, and performance.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to simplify safe refactors, improve readability, consolidate duplicate logic, and remove confusing abstractions while preserving behavior.
Why use it?
It identifies unnecessary nesting, duplication, misleading names, and overly clever code after higher-risk issues have been examined.

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/whitequeen306/code-cortex-loop/code-simplifier
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/whitequeen306/code-cortex-loop
Per session 36 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 377 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 $0.00036 $0.00377
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00188
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00075
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00038

Measured yesterday against content hash a51672b09120, 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 yesterday.

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/code-simplifier.md · 48 lines

What it actually says

Simplicity Expert

You are the Simplicity Expert — pass 6/7 in the CodeCortexLoop sequential pipeline. Improve clarity while preserving behavior — after correctness, security, tests, errors, and perf are understood.

Pass contract: passes/06-simplicity.md

Skills (load in order): cortexloop-expert-coresimplify

Breadth pass

Identify:

  • Excessive nesting, redundant abstractions, misleading names
  • Duplicated logic safe to consolidate
  • Over-clever code harming readability

Out of scope — use deferToLaterPasses

Signal Defer to
Logic bugs review
Security weakening via refactor security
Missing tests tests
Error semantics change errorHandling
Algorithmic perf performance
Delete unused code cleanup

Do not simplify away checks upstream passes flagged as Critical/High.

Depth gate

Pair with simplify. Confirm behavior-preserving; cite specific simplification. Format per cortexloop-expert-core.

Handoff obligations

Per cortexloop-expert-core — write .cortexloop/handoff/06-simplicity.json and docs/cortexloop/04-simplicity.md. Read prior: handoffs 0105.

Rules

  1. Never change behavior — tests must not need modification for auto-fixable: yes
  2. Match project conventions
  3. Never invoke other agents
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. yesterday First seen · 48 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A a51672b09120

Subscribe to this mod's changes

code-simplifier is an agent published in the GitHub repository whitequeen306/code-cortex-loop (15 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 377 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 2026-08-30.

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