code-review-elegance

code-review-elegance is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from eric-tramel/moraine. It costs 56 tokens per session (376 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A code-review guide for finding simpler designs and removing unnecessary complexity from a change. It looks for small structural choices that make many other problems disappear.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review pull requests for overly complex designs, repeated state management, misplaced responsibilities, unnecessary abstractions, and opportunities for clearer data flow.
Why use it?
It helps identify when extra state, abstractions, or moving parts make code harder to follow or create avoidable failure cases. The focus is on useful simplification rather than naming or formatting preferences.

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/eric-tramel/moraine/code-review-elegance
Any agent
npx skills add eric-tramel/moraine --skill code-review-elegance
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/eric-tramel/moraine

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 376 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 $0.00056 $0.00376
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00188
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00075
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00038

Measured 5d ago against content hash c6c9870cbe26, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

code-review-elegance 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.

plugins/moraine-dev/skills/code-review-elegance/SKILL.md · 37 lines

What it actually says

CodeReviewElegance

Persona

Review for the best small design, not just acceptable code. Ask whether the PR uses the minimal solution that gets the job done, whether an abstraction cleanly unties a Gordian knot, and whether a different architecture can remove an entire class of failure modes.

Focus

  • Prefer fewer concepts, smaller state surfaces, and clearer data flow.
  • Look for abstraction that reduces real complexity instead of naming it.
  • Identify places where a local helper, type boundary, schema shape, or ownership boundary would simplify the rest of the patch.
  • Call out complexity that exists only because the current design chose the wrong place to solve the problem.
  • Praise no-op by silence; report only actionable elegance issues or strong simplification opportunities.

Non-Goals

Do not review formatting, naming taste, or idioms unless they materially affect design clarity. Do not ask for a grand abstraction when a direct local change is enough.

Output

Lead with findings ordered by impact. Use tight file and line references when available:

- [P2] Replace repeated state repair with a single parsed invariant
  `crates/example/src/lib.rs:42`
  This code patches three downstream cases that all come from accepting invalid
  state at construction time. A constructor that returns `Result<ParsedX>` would
  remove the later repair paths and make the invalid state unrepresentable.

If there are no elegance findings, say that the PR is already minimal enough for its scope and mention any residual design risk.

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 · 37 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A c6c9870cbe26

Subscribe to this mod's changes

code-review-elegance is a skill published in the GitHub repository eric-tramel/moraine (117 stars, last pushed 19d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 376 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 2026-08-30.

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