cad-minimalism-review

cad-minimalism-review is a skill for Claude Code from crenshawdev/cadence. It costs 36 tokens per session (558 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A manual code review that produces a ranked list of code worth removing.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review a target and decide whether listed code should be deleted.
Why use it?
It identifies unnecessary abstractions, duplicated standard-library work, dead flexibility, and unused configuration without changing the code.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Runs only inside its plugin — its command needs a path that Claude Code sets for a plugin’s own hooks and for nothing else. Install the plugin, not this.

Part of the cadence plugin — 34 skills, 30 agents, 3 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to review a target and decide whether listed code should be deleted.

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Install

Getting it into your agent

This one installs as part of its plugin. Adding the marketplace and installing the plugin brings it with everything else the plugin ships.

Claude Code
/plugin marketplace add crenshawdev/cadence
Claude Code
/plugin install cadence

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install cadence, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 34 skills, 30 agents, 3 hooks.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 558 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 $0.00036 $0.00558
Opus 5 $0.00018 $0.00279
Sonnet 5 $0.00007 $0.00112
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00056

Measured 11d ago against content hash 308a6c83a046, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

cad-minimalism-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 11d 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/cad-minimalism-review/SKILL.md · 52 lines

What it actually says

This pass APPLIES NOTHING. The delete-list is input to the user's decision: no file is edited, deleted, staged or committed, and there is no fix arm to skip. It is a manual, on-demand entry point only - it never auto-fires, and there is no wiring, no gate and no verdict behind it, because a delete-list cannot PASS or FAIL anything.

<execution_context> @${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/cadence-core/workflows/minimalism-review.md </execution_context>

  1. Run the workflow end-to-end: bracket and dispatch the one cad-reviewer worker at the session default, then close its bracket the moment the findings are in hand - as a checkpoint when the dispatch came back unusable, which reports NO list rather than an empty one.

  2. Present the delete-list ranked by severity, each entry carrying the reviewer's own file, line, claim and failure_scenario unedited; a clean sweep is reported as a result naming the target that was read, never as a bare "no findings". Do NOT delete, edit or apply any of it - the user decides what goes and does it themselves.

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. 11d ago First seen · 52 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 308a6c83a046

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cad-minimalism-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository crenshawdev/cadence (5 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 558 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 2026-08-31.

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