simplify-codebase

simplify-codebase is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from dceoy/ai-coding-agent-skills. It costs 67 tokens per session (694 once invoked), scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

A method for making a code repository smaller and easier to maintain by removing duplication, unused code, and unnecessary complexity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when simplifying, shrinking, deduplicating, removing dead code, or refactoring a repository for easier maintenance.
Why use it?
It helps reduce the amount of code developers must understand, update, and test while keeping required behaviour unchanged.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing.

Good fit Use it when simplifying, shrinking, deduplicating, removing dead code, or refactoring a repository for easier maintenance.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/dceoy/ai-coding-agent-skills/simplify-codebase
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 dceoy/ai-coding-agent-skills --skill simplify-codebase
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/dceoy/ai-coding-agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 67 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 694 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 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 5.1 $0.00067 $0.00694
Opus 5.5 $0.00027 $0.00278
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00139
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00069

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 997f6e28562a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

simplify-codebase 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 1mo 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/simplify-codebase/SKILL.md · 33 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. 1mo ago First seen · 33 lines · 67 tokens per session scan A 997f6e28562a

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simplify-codebase is a skill published in the GitHub repository dceoy/ai-coding-agent-skills (4 stars, last pushed today), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 67 tokens to every session and 694 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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