skill-simplify

skill-simplify is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from catlog22/Claude-Code-Workflow. It costs 45 tokens per session (664 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

SKILL.md simplification with functional integrity verification. Analyze redundancy, optimize content, check no functionality lost. Triggers on "simplify skill", "optimize skill", "skill-simplify".

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/catlog22/claude-code-workflow/skill-simplify
Any agent
npx skills add catlog22/Claude-Code-Workflow --skill skill-simplify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/catlog22/Claude-Code-Workflow

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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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 skill-simplify

README.md
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Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 664 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
Origin unknown 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 $0.00045 $0.00664
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00332
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00133
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00066

Measured today against content hash bec87f2f4dbe, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

skill-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/skills/skill-simplify/SKILL.md · 57 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 57 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Skill Simplify

Three-phase pipeline: analyze functional inventory, apply optimization rules, verify integrity.

Phase Reference Documents (read on-demand):

Phase Document Purpose
1 phases/01-analysis.md Extract functional inventory, identify redundancy, validate pseudo-code format
2 phases/02-optimize.md Apply simplification rules, fix format issues
3 phases/03-check.md Verify functional integrity, validate format

Input Processing

const targetPath = input.trim()
const targetFile = targetPath.endsWith('.md') ? targetPath : `${targetPath}/SKILL.md`
const originalContent = Read(targetFile)
const originalLineCount = originalContent.split('\n').length

TodoWrite Pattern

TodoWrite({ todos: [
  { content: `Phase 1: Analyzing ${targetFile}`, status: "in_progress", activeForm: "Extracting functional inventory" },
  { content: "Phase 2: Optimize", status: "pending" },
  { content: "Phase 3: Integrity Check", status: "pending" }
]})

Core Rules

  1. Preserve ALL functional elements: Code blocks with logic, agent calls, data structures, routing, error handling, input/output specs
  2. Only reduce descriptive content: Flowcharts, verbose comments, duplicate sections, examples that repeat logic
  3. Never summarize algorithm logic: If-else branches, function bodies, schemas must remain verbatim
  4. Classify code blocks: Distinguish functional (logic, routing, schemas) from descriptive (ASCII art, examples, display templates) — only descriptive blocks may be deleted
  5. Merge equivalent variants: Single/multi-perspective templates differing only by a parameter → one template with variant comment
  6. Fix format issues: Nested backtick template literals in code fences → convert to prose; hardcoded option lists → flag for dynamic generation; workflow handoff references → ensure execution steps present
  7. Validate pseudo-code: Check bracket matching, variable consistency, structural completeness
  8. Quantitative verification: Phase 3 counts must match Phase 1 counts for functional categories; descriptive block decreases are expected

Read the full file on GitHub · 57 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 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. today First seen · 57 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A bec87f2f4dbe

Subscribe to this mod's changes

skill-simplify is a skill published in the GitHub repository catlog22/Claude-Code-Workflow (2,133 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 664 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-09-03.

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