simplify

simplify is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from alvinunreal/oh-my-opencode-slim. It costs 27 tokens per session (955 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code-refactoring guide for making working code easier to read and maintain while keeping its behavior unchanged.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after a feature works and tests pass, during code review, or when simplifying code written quickly or spread across several files.
Why use it?
It helps reduce nested logic, long functions, unclear names, duplication, and other complexity without accidentally changing what the program does.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

About the project

oh-my-opencode-slim is a plugin that coordinates multiple specialized AI agents inside OpenCode, assigning codebase exploration, documentation research, architecture review, design, and implementation to different agents. It is for developers who want agent teams to divide and reconcile software-development work while mixing models from different providers. The catalogue entries are the plugin’s bundled agents, skills, and instruction.

alvinunreal/oh-my-opencode-slim · 8,632 stars · on GitHub · ohmyopencodeslim.com

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 skills/alvinunreal/oh-my-opencode-slim/simplify
Any agent
npx skills add alvinunreal/oh-my-opencode-slim --skill simplify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/alvinunreal/oh-my-opencode-slim

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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agentmods badge for simplify

README.md
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<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/alvinunreal/oh-my-opencode-slim/simplify"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/alvinunreal/oh-my-opencode-slim/simplify.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 27 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 955 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 5.1 $0.00027 $0.00955
Opus 5 $0.00014 $0.00477
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00191
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00096

Measured 6d ago against content hash 29e126c20e83, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-05, 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 6d 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • simplify — 100% identical, 0 lines differ
src/skills/simplify/SKILL.md · 137 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 137 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Code Simplification

Overview

Simplify code by reducing complexity while preserving exact behavior. The goal is not fewer lines - it's code that is easier to read, understand, modify, and debug. Every simplification must pass a simple test: "Would a new team member understand this faster than the original?"

When to Use

  • After a feature is working and tests pass, but the implementation feels heavier than it needs to be
  • During code review when readability or complexity issues are flagged
  • When you encounter deeply nested logic, long functions, or unclear names
  • When refactoring code written under time pressure
  • When consolidating related logic scattered across files
  • After merging changes that introduced duplication or inconsistency

When NOT to use:

  • Code is already clean and readable - don't simplify for the sake of it
  • You don't understand what the code does yet - comprehend before you simplify
  • The code is performance-critical and the "simpler" version would be measurably slower
  • You're about to rewrite the module entirely - simplifying throwaway code wastes effort

The Five Principles

1. Preserve Behavior Exactly

Don't change what the code does - only how it expresses it. All inputs, outputs, side effects, error behavior, and edge cases must remain identical. If you're not sure a simplification preserves behavior, don't make it.

Before every change, ask:

  • Does this produce the same output for every input?
  • Does this maintain the same error behavior?
  • Does this preserve the same side effects and ordering?
  • What proportionate final-state verification will reveal a behavior change?

2. Follow Project Conventions

Simplification means making code more consistent with the codebase, not imposing external preferences.

Before simplifying:

  1. Read AGENTS.md / project conventions
  2. Study how neighboring code handles similar patterns
  3. Match the project's style for imports, naming, function style, error handling, and type annotations

Read the full file on GitHub · 137 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 6d ago First seen · 137 lines · 27 tokens per session scan A 29e126c20e83

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simplify is a skill published in the GitHub repository alvinunreal/oh-my-opencode-slim (8,632 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 27 tokens to every session and 955 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-08-30.