briefbound-simplification-review

briefbound-simplification-review is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from CCDawn/codex-skills. It costs 58 tokens per session (883 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only review process for finding unnecessary complexity in a code change, such as a diff, pull request, branch, or commit range. It ranks possible simplifications and explains how behavior would be preserved.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for reviewing patches for removable code, duplicate logic, unnecessary dependencies, unused configuration, forwarding layers, or abstractions with only one use.
Why use it?
It helps identify over-engineering without treating every code review as a request to remove code. It also keeps correctness, security, performance, and requirements reviews separate.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: shipped in a Claude Code plugin, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Part of the briefbound-skills plugin — 30 skills shipped together

Good fit It is for reviewing patches for removable code, duplicate logic, unnecessary dependencies, unused configuration, forwarding layers, or abstractions with only one use.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/ccdawn/codex-skills/briefbound-simplification-review
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.

Any agent
npx skills add CCDawn/codex-skills --skill briefbound-simplification-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/CCDawn/codex-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install briefbound-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 30 skills.

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Per session 58 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 883 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 $0.00058 $0.00883
Opus 5 $0.00029 $0.00441
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00177
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00088

Measured 8d ago against content hash 3fae92393769, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

briefbound-simplification-review 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 8d 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.

skills/engineering/briefbound-simplification-review/SKILL.md · 63 lines

What it actually says

Briefbound 精简审查

目标

只读审查当前变更中的非必要复杂度,给出有证据、可执行的删减建议。它补充正确性审查,不替代 briefbound-pr-review

Briefbound task contract

  • Context Boundary: 当前 diff/PR/base-head、已对齐需求、必要兼容与安全约束、明确排除范围。
  • Output Contract: 按收益排序的精简 findings、保留理由、与正确性审查的组合路由。
  • Allowed Action: 只读;不修改文件、不移动 HEAD、不改 index、不合并或推送。
  • Success Evidence: 每条 finding 都绑定文件/行号或 diff 证据,且说明删除或替代后如何保持行为。
  • Stop Condition: 没有可审 diff、需求边界不明、建议会改变用户行为、或发现问题主要属于正确性/安全/性能。
  • Route Out: briefbound-pr-reviewbriefbound-performance-engineering、对应开发 owner、briefbound-planningbriefbound-router 或 BLOCKED。

统一调用契约

  • 只处理 Briefbound task contract 范围;不匹配时回 briefbound-router 或更具体 owner,复合任务不吞其他 owner。
  • 用户可见内容默认中文,完成只报状态、产出、证据和剩余风险;代码、命令、路径、错误原文、API/协议、skill 名和枚举保留原样;Route Out 仅以 Briefbound task contract 为准,末行写 下一步建议: <一个具体动作>

审查规则

  1. 先读需求和 diff,只检查本次新增或改动造成的复杂度。
  2. 优先寻找:可删除代码、标准库/平台原生替代、单实现抽象、单调用转发层、无人使用的配置能力、重复逻辑和不必要依赖。
  3. 只报告净收益明确且不会破坏已确认行为、信任边界、无障碍、兼容、迁移、恢复或必要测试的项。
  4. 不为减少行数牺牲可读性、错误处理、类型约束或真实扩展需求;无法证明时写“保留”,不要强行给 finding。
  5. 正确性、安全或需求偏离交 briefbound-pr-review;需实测的性能问题交 briefbound-performance-engineering。两类问题可组合,不互相替代。

标签:删除标准库原生能力暂不需要收缩

输出

默认中文,先 findings 后结论:

精简审查:
- 结论: LEAN / CUTS_AVAILABLE / BLOCKED
- 范围: ...

Findings:
- [标签] [文件:行] 删减对象;替代方式;行为保持证据;预计收益。

保留项:
- 看似复杂但必须保留的约束及证据。

组合路由:
- 正确性/安全问题 -> briefbound-pr-review
- 性能测量 -> briefbound-performance-engineering
- 可直接精简 -> 对应开发 owner

下一步建议: <一个具体动作>

只有实际测量时才给精确净减行数或依赖数;否则使用区间或定性收益。没有可删项时明确说明当前变更已经足够精简。

本 skill 的复杂度视角借鉴 Ponytail(MIT),并按 Briefbound 的中文输出、证据和 owner 契约重新组织。

Files

What ships with it

1 file 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. 8d ago First seen · 63 lines · 58 tokens per session scan A 3fae92393769

Subscribe to this mod's changes

briefbound-simplification-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository CCDawn/codex-skills (4 stars, last pushed 26d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 58 tokens to every session and 883 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 2026-08-31.