simplify

simplify is a command for Claude Code from shawnclybor/clybor-claude-tooling. It costs 26 tokens per session (171 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A command that reviews a chosen target for over-complicated designs, early abstractions, and unnecessary layers of indirection.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a feature, module, or code change for avoidable complexity.
Why use it?
It helps reveal code or design that is harder to understand and maintain than necessary.

Command for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Good fit Use it to review a feature, module, or code change for avoidable complexity.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add commands/shawnclybor/clybor-claude-tooling/simplify
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.

Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/shawnclybor/clybor-claude-tooling

Made for: Claude Code.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

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Per session 26 Only the description is in the session, so the agent can decide to use it. The body loads when it is invoked.
When invoked 171 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
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 5.1 $0.00026 $0.00171
Opus 5.5 $0.00010 $0.00068
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00005 $0.00034
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00017

Measured today against content hash dcc504b09be0, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 today.

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.

.claude/commands/simplify.md · 25 lines

What it actually says

/simplify

Single-lens review using just the simplifier agent. Use when you want the KISS / YAGNI lens applied without challenging the underlying claims.

Usage

/simplify <target>

What happens

  1. Spawn simplifier (Sonnet) against the target
  2. Return numbered findings with simpler alternatives and risk-of-simplification notes

When to use this instead of /quality-review

  • You already trust the design's correctness — you only want it slimmer
  • You're reviewing existing code (not a proposal) and want refactor candidates
  • The target is purely structural (config, file layout, abstraction depth)
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. today Changed dcc504b09be0
  2. 1mo ago First seen · 25 lines · 26 tokens per session scan A cc2d55e90021

Subscribe to this mod's changes

simplify is a command published in the GitHub repository shawnclybor/clybor-claude-tooling (6 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 26 tokens to every session and 171 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5.5. 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.