find-code-simplifications

find-code-simplifications is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from DCspirit-23/DSH-inspired-Code-Simplification-Skill. It costs 72 tokens per session (1,509 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A read-only code review that looks across a branch, selected modules, or a whole repository for ways to make the design simpler.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to investigate dead code, duplicated state, speculative abstractions, extra lifecycle logic, and custom infrastructure that could be removed.
Why use it?
It helps find unnecessary code and concepts that are hard to spot during ordinary review, while requiring evidence before suggesting changes.

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/dcspirit-23/dsh-inspired-code-simplification-skill/find-code-simplifications
Any agent
npx skills add DCspirit-23/DSH-inspired-Code-Simplification-Skill --skill find-code-simplifications
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/DCspirit-23/DSH-inspired-Code-Simplification-Skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,509 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 $0.00072 $0.01509
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00754
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00302
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00151

Measured 5d ago against content hash c2c01d88b149, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

find-code-simplifications 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 5d 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.

find-code-simplifications/SKILL.md · 104 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 104 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Find Code Simplifications

Find a few meaningful simplifications with strong evidence. Follow the code and its contracts, keep judgment active, and prefer net reductions in concepts and maintained surface area over cosmetic line-count wins.

Establish The Investigation

  1. Determine the requested scope: a branch or PR diff, named modules, or the whole repository.
  2. For branch work, establish a fixed comparison base from the user's target, PR metadata, or the verified merge base. Include staged, unstaged, and relevant untracked work when the request covers the current working tree.
  3. Read the repository instructions and the architecture, testing, dependency, compatibility, and design-decision documents that govern the selected scope.
  4. Inspect the working tree before proceeding and preserve unrelated user changes.
  5. Begin read-only. Produce findings first; edit code only when the user explicitly asks for implementation.

Complete this stage when the scope, comparison point, applicable rules, and mutation boundary are explicit.

Identify Strong Candidates

Look for simplifications where the current design costs more than it buys:

  • A public method, event, configuration option, helper, package, registry entry, or test artifact has no production consumer.
  • Tests or documentation are the only consumers, and the behavior they preserve is not load-bearing.
  • Multiple representations, caches, flags, or events mirror the same fact.
  • An interface or abstraction forces implementations to support capabilities no production caller uses.
  • A wrapper, package, layer, or registry adds indirection without owning policy, state, translation, or lifecycle.
  • A feature carries speculative generality for scenarios with no current product or platform owner.
  • An invariant, rollback path, expected-output corpus, or special-case test exists only to protect an unused surface.
  • Code added and later removed left compatibility branches, configuration, migrations, documentation, snapshots, or tests behind.
  • Hand-rolled infrastructure duplicates a standard-library feature or a well-maintained dependency and replacement would produce a real net deletion.
  • Similar branches, adapters, commands, or data transformations can share one source of truth without hiding meaningful differences.

Read the full file on GitHub · 104 lines

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. 5d ago First seen · 104 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A c2c01d88b149

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find-code-simplifications is a skill published in the GitHub repository DCspirit-23/DSH-inspired-Code-Simplification-Skill (28 stars, last pushed 18d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 1,509 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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