An idea-generation exercise that examines what can be removed, simplified, or streamlined from a product, process, rule, or cost.

Use it to simplify features, workflows, requirements, or expenses while considering what value might appear after removal.

It helps reveal unnecessary parts and question assumptions about what must remain.

eliminate — Command for coding agents by neurofoo: An idea-generation exercise that examines what can be removed…

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/neurofoo/agent-skills/eliminate

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/neurofoo/agent-skills

Or install creative-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 3 skills, 8 commands.

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.

README.md

[![agentmods](https://agentmods.dev/badge/commands/neurofoo/agent-skills/eliminate.svg)](https://agentmods.dev/commands/neurofoo/agent-skills/eliminate)

Your own site

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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 533 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	$0.00000	$0.00533
Opus 5	$0.00000	$0.00267
Sonnet 5	$0.00000	$0.00107
Haiku 4.5	$0.00000	$0.00053

Measured 5d ago against content hash 1c207b846762, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

eliminate 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 5d 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.

scamper/commands/eliminate.md · 89 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 89 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

ELIMINATE

Generate ideas by asking what can be removed, omitted, simplified, or streamlined.

Instructions

Challenge assumptions about what's necessary. Consider what could be removed without losing core value—and what new value might emerge from subtraction.

Output Format

Subject: [What we're exploring]

Current Components

What currently exists?

[Component 1]
[Component 2]
[Component 3]
[Component 4]
[Component 5]

Elimination Analysis

Features/Components to Remove

Component	Why We Think It's Needed	What If Removed?
[component]	[assumption]	[possibility]
[component]	[assumption]	[possibility]
[component]	[assumption]	[possibility]

Steps/Processes to Remove

Step	Why It Exists	Without It?
[step]	[reason]	[what happens]
[step]	[reason]	[what happens]

Rules/Constraints to Remove

Rule	Original Reason	If Eliminated?
[rule]	[why it exists]	[new possibility]
[rule]	[why it exists]	[new possibility]

Costs to Remove

Cost	Why We Pay It	Elimination Strategy
[cost]	[reason]	[how to eliminate]

Complexity to Remove

Complex Element	Simpler Version	Trade-off
[complex]	[simple]	[what changes]

Radical Elimination

What if we removed 50%? [Describe the minimalist version]

What would remain if we kept only the essential? [The core that can't be removed]

What's the "90% of value in 10% of features" version? [Pareto principle applied]

Prompting Questions

What's not really necessary?
What if we removed [sacred cow]?
What would happen with half the features?
What could we stop doing?
What are we doing just because we always have?
What would the radical simplification look like?

Read the full file on GitHub · 89 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.

5d ago First seen · 89 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A 1c207b846762

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eliminate is a command published in the GitHub repository neurofoo/agent-skills (111 stars, last pushed 7mo ago), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 533 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.

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