A command for simplifying an interface or design using one selected approach: adapt, clarify, or distill. It repeats a short review cycle to check whether the result became simpler.

Use it to adjust an existing design to a new context, clarify confusing parts, or remove details until the essential idea remains.

It helps reduce unnecessary complexity and makes a design easier to understand without running the broader design-improvement process.

simplify — Command by adilkalam

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 commands/adilkalam/orca/simplify

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/adilkalam/orca

Per session 69 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.

When invoked 805 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.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5	$0.00069	$0.00805
Opus 5	$0.00034	$0.00402
Sonnet 5	$0.00014	$0.00161
Haiku 4.5	$0.00007	$0.00081

Measured yesterday against content hash bcc304e2162f, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

simplify 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.

commands/simplify.md · 62 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 62 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/simplify — Design Simplification Router (individual commands)

Tweak entry for the simplification verbs. Each flag is an individual command run OUTSIDE the /impeccable pipeline — no separate validator agent, so the cognition constraint loop IS the enforcement (mandatory). Zero loop logic of its own (#POISON_PATH duplication): the loop is defined once at ~/.claude/docs/reference/cognition-constraint-loop.md.

Parse flag (exactly one required)

Flag	Verb / craft skill
`--adapt`	`adapt`
`--clarify`	`clarify`
`--distill`	`distill`

If no flag or an unrecognized flag: print this table, ask the user to pick. Do not guess. Do not run.

Run — the in-thread cognition constraint loop

Target routing (#PATH_DECISION — one rule, not 5 copies): apply ~/.claude/docs/concepts/ios-design-contract/target-routing.md. If the TARGET ends in .swift, load Skill("ios-impeccable-hub") (instead of impeccable-hub) and use the Swift detector below; otherwise keep the CSS path unchanged.

Run the loop at ~/.claude/docs/reference/cognition-constraint-loop.md with VERB = <flag>, loading Skill("impeccable-hub") (the aesthetic; Skill("ios-impeccable-hub") for a .swift target — see routing above) + Skill("<flag>") (craft spine):

R1 BIND — cognition checkpoint emits the typed FORBIDDEN/FORWARD constraints; capture the ids.
R2 WORK — edit the target in-thread under the bound ids, applying the craft + the user's critique verbatim (FR-6). Before writing styling code, read the relevant doctrine: the CSS manifesto (~/.claude/docs/concepts/llm-css-manifesto.md) for web; the loaded ios-impeccable-hub for a .swift target (per the routing rule above).
EVALUATE — check every bound constraint + run the detector self-check (.swift → swiftdesigncheck detect --json <file>; else designcheck.js detect --json <file> — see the routing rule); record a cognition thought.
R(n) LOOP — fix + re-evaluate until none unsatisfied. MAX N=2, then escalate. You may NOT claim done with an open constraint.

Read the full file on GitHub · 62 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.

yesterday First seen · 62 lines · 69 tokens per session scan A bcc304e2162f

Subscribe to this mod's changes

simplify is a command published in the GitHub repository adilkalam/orca (2 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 69 tokens to every session and 805 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 2026-08-31.

Code review

simplify

Getting it into your agent

What it costs to keep this loaded

Grade A, and why

Nothing flagged

How it starts

/simplify — Design Simplification Router (individual commands)

Parse flag (exactly one required)

Run — the in-thread cognition constraint loop

What this file has done since we first saw it

Other commands, from other repositories

checklist

clarify

specify

analyze

converge

implement