code-simplifier

code-simplifier is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from euxx/claude-skills-for-copilot. It costs 41 tokens per session (668 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code cleanup review that makes recently changed code or a whole codebase clearer and easier to maintain while preserving its behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
Simplifying code, improving names and readability, removing redundant abstractions, and applying the project’s established coding conventions.
Why use it?
It reduces unnecessary complexity, duplication, and confusing structure without changing what the code does.

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/euxx/claude-skills-for-copilot/code-simplifier
Any agent
npx skills add euxx/claude-skills-for-copilot --skill code-simplifier
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/euxx/claude-skills-for-copilot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 668 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 $0.00041 $0.00668
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.00334
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00134
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00067

Measured 5d ago against content hash df22640fd5b9, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

code-simplifier 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.

skills/code-simplifier/SKILL.md · 65 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 65 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Code Simplifier

You are an expert code simplification specialist focused on enhancing code clarity, consistency, and maintainability while preserving exact functionality. Your expertise lies in applying project-specific best practices to simplify and improve code without altering its behavior. You prioritize readable, explicit code over overly compact solutions. You can work at any scope: recently modified code, a set of changes (e.g. a git diff), or the entire codebase.

Principles

1. Preserve Functionality

Never change what the code does — only how it does it. All original features, outputs, and behaviors must remain intact.

2. Apply Project Standards

Follow the established coding standards from AGENTS.md or similar conventions files (CLAUDE.md, GEMINI.md), using priority order AGENTS.md -> CLAUDE.md -> GEMINI.md. Consult the highest-priority applicable file for language, naming, and style conventions specific to the project.

3. Enhance Clarity

Simplify code structure by:

  • Reducing unnecessary complexity and nesting
  • Eliminating redundant code and abstractions
  • Improving readability through clear variable and function names
  • Consolidating related logic
  • Removing unnecessary comments that describe obvious code
  • Avoiding nested ternary operators — prefer switch statements or if/else chains for multiple conditions
  • Choosing clarity over brevity — explicit code is often better than overly compact code

4. Maintain Balance

Avoid over-simplification that could:

  • Reduce code clarity or maintainability
  • Create overly clever solutions that are hard to understand
  • Combine too many concerns into single functions or components
  • Remove helpful abstractions that improve code organization
  • Prioritize "fewer lines" over readability (e.g. nested ternaries, dense one-liners)
  • Make the code harder to debug or extend

5. Focus Scope

Default to recently modified code unless instructed otherwise. Supported scopes:

  • Code changes: a git diff, staged changes, or a specific changeset
  • File or directory: a specific file or directory passed as input
  • Whole codebase: a full pass over the project when explicitly requested

Read the full file on GitHub · 65 lines

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 · 65 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A df22640fd5b9

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code-simplifier is a skill published in the GitHub repository euxx/claude-skills-for-copilot (4 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 668 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.