simplify

simplify is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from bigduu/Bamboo-agent. It costs 68 tokens per session (280 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for simplifying existing code without changing its observable behavior. It focuses on removing duplication, unnecessary layers, and needless complexity, then checking that behavior remains the same.

In plain words
What is it for?
For focused cleanup and behavior-preserving refactors, with targeted tests and regression checks when needed.
Why use it?
It helps make code easier to maintain while keeping its existing contract and compatibility intact.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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/bigduu/bamboo-agent/simplify
Any agent
npx skills add bigduu/Bamboo-agent --skill simplify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/bigduu/Bamboo-agent

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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.

agentmods badge for simplify

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 68 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 280 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 $0.00068 $0.00280
Opus 5 $0.00034 $0.00140
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00056
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00028

Measured 3d ago against content hash 2cd1f9060054, 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 3d 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.

builtin_skills/simplify/SKILL.md · 17 lines

What it actually says

Simplify

Make the code easier to understand for the next maintainer without changing its contract.

  1. Define the scoped behavior that must remain stable and read its callers, tests, error semantics, and compatibility constraints.
  2. Identify concrete complexity: duplicated decisions, unnecessary layers, misleading state, premature generality, or control flow that can be made direct.
  3. Prefer deletion, consolidation, and existing project patterns over a new abstraction. Keep the diff focused and avoid opportunistic cleanup.
  4. Modify files only when the user asked for the refactor. For a read-only request, present the smallest behavior-preserving proposal instead.
  5. Run the narrow equivalence tests first, then affected suites. Add a regression test when existing coverage cannot prove the preserved behavior.

Explain what became simpler and why, the behavior evidence, validation, and any residual risk. If the proposed simplification would alter behavior or public contracts, stop and present it as a separate decision. Respect permission failures and preserve the established behavior baseline across context compaction.

Files

What ships with it

4 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. 3d ago First seen · 17 lines · 68 tokens per session scan A 2cd1f9060054

Subscribe to this mod's changes

simplify is a skill published in the GitHub repository bigduu/Bamboo-agent (16 stars, last pushed 3d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 68 tokens to every session and 280 once invoked, about $0.0003 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.

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