simplify

A command for rewriting an explanation in simpler, clearer language. It identifies jargon, long sentences, abstract ideas, and missing background knowledge before producing a shorter version.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps simplify documentation, explanations, and other text by replacing specialist terms, shortening sentences, adding concrete examples, and summarizing the result.
Why use it?
It helps readers understand technical or complicated writing without already knowing the subject. It also shows what was changed and why.

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/neurofoo/agent-skills/simplify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/neurofoo/agent-skills
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 316 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 $0.00316
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00158
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00063
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00032

Measured 2d ago against content hash a638495b1923, 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 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.

feynman/commands/simplify.md · 69 lines

What it actually says

Simplify Explanation

Take an explanation and make it simpler and clearer.

Instructions

Analyze the provided explanation and rewrite it in simpler terms. Remove jargon, shorten sentences, add analogies.

Output Format

Original: [The explanation to simplify]


Analysis

Complexity Issues Found

Issue Example from Original
Jargon "[term] - not defined"
Long sentences "[quote first few words...]"
Abstract concepts "[what's not concrete]"
Assumed knowledge "[what reader needs to already know]"

Reading Level: [Approximate grade level of original]


Simplified Version

[Rewritten explanation with:

  • Jargon replaced with plain words
  • Sentences shortened
  • Concrete examples added
  • Analogies included]

What Changed

Original Simplified Why
"[phrase]" "[simpler phrase]" [reasoning]
"[phrase]" "[simpler phrase]" [reasoning]

Added Analogy

[A new analogy to help understanding]


The 30-Second Version

If someone only has 30 seconds:

[Ultra-condensed explanation]

Guidelines

  • Simpler ≠ dumbed down; simpler = clearer
  • Every jargon term should be either removed or defined
  • Add examples for abstract concepts
  • Test: Would this make sense to someone outside the field?

$ARGUMENTS

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 · 69 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A a638495b1923

Subscribe to this mod's changes

simplify 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 316 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.