simplify-code

A code-review command that checks a recent implementation for simpler approaches, repeated logic, and unused code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review and clean up your changes, then fix any issues it finds.
Why use it?
It helps catch unnecessary or leftover code before you finish a task.

Command

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/e-gov/cursor-prompts/simplify-code
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/e-gov/cursor-prompts
Per session 0 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 62 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 $0.00000 $0.00062
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00031
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00012
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00006

Measured 2d ago against content hash 789d2b8de157, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

simplify-code 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.

commands/simplify-code.md · 4 lines

What it actually says

simplify-code

Review your implementation before stopping. Check whether there is a better or simpler approach, whether any redundant code remains, whether duplicate logic was introduced, and whether any dead or unused code was left behind. If you find issues, fix them now; if not, briefly confirm the implementation is clean.

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 · 4 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 789d2b8de157

Subscribe to this mod's changes

simplify-code is a command published in the GitHub repository e-gov/cursor-prompts (34 stars, last pushed 4mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 62 tokens. 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.