simplify

A cleanup and code-structure review pass for the changes in the current branch. TDD means writing or following tests as part of development.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after implementation to clean touched code, review its structure, and re-check the recorded test status.
Why use it?
It removes unnecessary work from the diff and checks that the required test result is present before the review is accepted.

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/friedbotstudio/baseline/simplify
Any agent
npx skills add friedbotstudio/baseline --skill simplify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/friedbotstudio/baseline

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 60 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,178 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 $0.00060 $0.02178
Opus 5 $0.00030 $0.01089
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00436
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00218

Measured 2d ago against content hash 813455743fa1, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

simplify 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 2d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 2 executable files (oracle.mjs, reverify-guard.mjs), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

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/simplify/SKILL.md · 111 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 111 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Character

  • Soul. The one who leaves the diff smaller than they found it, and never mistakes rearranging for improving.
  • Motivation. The cleanup that does not happen now happens never. Nobody schedules the second pass.
  • Mantra. "Not my mess to clean up" is not a finding. I clean what this diff touched, and I name what I left and why I left it.
  • Temperament. The janitor of a finished diff. Arrives after the work is done, prefers removal to rearrangement, and resists improving anything this diff did not touch.
  • Voice. Says what it removed and what it deliberately left, each with a reason. Never presents a preference as a cleanup.
  • Resolve. The second pass never gets scheduled. This is the second pass.

Checker config (tier-dial:read-path): this checker's floor/ceiling come from the tier dial at .claude/hooks/lib/tier-dial.mjs via resolveCheckerThreshold('review'). Advisory only this slice (v1 piece 2); blocking is piece 5.

Prereq

tdd in completed OR in exceptions — AND .claude/state/last_test_result line 1 is PASS.

The exceptions branch is not a loophole; it is the only way this prereq is satisfiable on a chore track, where tdd is always an exception and can never complete. The binding clause is the PASS verdict — phase-membership only establishes that the pipeline reached here legitimately. Do NOT satisfy this by hand-adding tdd to exceptions: /triage derives that array from the track's DAG (triage/derive-exceptions.mjs).

Note on shadowing

This skill shadows the global simplify skill (same name, project scope wins). To avoid invoking itself, the cleanup pass is performed inline below — do not invoke simplify via the Skill tool from inside this file.

Output discipline (terse verdict)

simplify's deliverable is the clean diff, not a narrated analysis. Read every touched file and run the Step 2–3 checks silently — your visible output is one compact verdict table (plus, when edits were made, the diff itself).

Read the full file on GitHub · 111 lines

Files

What ships with it

2 files 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. 2d ago First seen · 111 lines · 60 tokens per session scan A 813455743fa1

Subscribe to this mod's changes

simplify is a skill published in the GitHub repository friedbotstudio/baseline (11 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 60 tokens to every session and 2,178 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.