Simplification Cascades

Simplification Cascades is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from einverne/dotfiles. It costs 29 tokens per session (612 once invoked), scanned A, original, GPL-3.0.

A reasoning technique for finding one assumption or fact that makes several parts of a design unnecessary.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for simplifying software designs, plans, and architectures by looking for a single insight that removes several separate pieces.
Why use it?
It helps reduce complexity by questioning whether multiple components are needed at all.

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/einverne/dotfiles/simplification-cascades
Any agent
npx skills add einverne/dotfiles --skill simplification-cascades
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/einverne/dotfiles

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

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 Simplification Cascades

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/einverne/dotfiles/simplification-cascades"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/einverne/dotfiles/simplification-cascades.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 29 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 612 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 $0.00029 $0.00612
Opus 5 $0.00015 $0.00306
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00122
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00061

Measured 5d ago against content hash 57417c2d4693, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

Simplification Cascades 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.

claude/skills/problem-solving/simplification-cascades/SKILL.md · 77 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed GPL-3.0

The repository is licensed GPL-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. 5d ago First seen · 77 lines · 29 tokens per session scan A 57417c2d4693

Subscribe to this mod's changes

Simplification Cascades is a skill published in the GitHub repository einverne/dotfiles (121 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed GPL-3.0. It adds 29 tokens to every session and 612 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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