simplify

simplify is a skill for Claude Code from griffinwork40/agent-afk. It costs 76 tokens per session (1,746 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A read-only guide for finding unnecessary complexity, repeated code, unused code, and poor abstractions in a software project. It produces a ranked plan for simplifying the code while preserving its behavior.

In plain words
What is it for?
It helps inspect changed files or an entire repository, find duplication and dead code, identify complex areas, note missing test coverage, and optionally apply only explicitly requested safe changes.
Why use it?
It shows what can be safely removed or reduced without treating code cleanup as a correctness review or changing code automatically.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: argument-hint in frontmatter. Also seen: mentions subagents.

Part of the awa-bundled plugin — 18 skills shipped together

Good fit It helps inspect changed files or an entire repository, find duplication and dead code, identify complex areas, note missing test coverage, and optionally apply only explicitly requested safe changes.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/griffinwork40/agent-afk/simplify
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.

Any agent
npx skills add griffinwork40/agent-afk --skill simplify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/griffinwork40/agent-afk

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install awa-bundled, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 18 skills.

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 simplify

README.md
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Your own site
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Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.

agentmods 80×15 button for simplify

Your own site · 80×15
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/griffinwork40/agent-afk/simplify"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/griffinwork40/agent-afk/simplify.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>
Per session 76 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,746 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector warn 7 Sept 2026
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to medium

These are SkillSpector’s own severities. On a checked sample its high-severity flags on skills were ~96% false positives — a documented command, a public API, a “never do X” rule — so we show them as a caution to read, not a verdict. Why →

  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 40
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
  • medium MCP Rug Pull · line 47
    npx commands without a version suffix (e.g. @1.0.0) create a rug-pull risk if the upstream server is compromised and publishes a malicious update.
    Fix: Pin the version: npx @scope/[email protected]
How audits are shown
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 5.1 $0.00076 $0.01746
Opus 5.5 $0.00030 $0.00698
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00349
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00175

Measured 1mo ago against content hash a984a5078729, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 1mo 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.

Origin

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

  • simplify — 95% identical, 0 lines differ
src/bundled-plugins/awa-bundled/skills/simplify/SKILL.md · 126 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 126 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Sub-agent contract

/contract

Overview

/simplify is a discovery-and-prioritization skill, not a correctness auditor (that is /review's job) and not a blind executor (that is /refactor's job). It answers: what incidental complexity, duplication, and dead weight exists in this code, and what is safe to remove? Default mode is read-only: a ranked reduction plan is emitted but nothing is changed. Writes only happen when --apply is explicitly passed.

Scope is diff-bounded by default (git diff origin/main, or working-tree/HEAD if no remote). Pass --all for a whole-repo sweep (where duplication and dead-code analysis pay off most). Pass an explicit [target] path or PR reference to override both. Code with no test coverage is safe to analyze but must never be auto-applied — the skill surfaces that gap and recommends /simplify [target] --all after adding tests, or produces the plan and stops.


Argument parsing

Argument Effect
(none) Scope = git diff origin/main (working-tree fallback)
[target] Explicit path, glob, or PR ref
--all Whole-repo sweep; excludes node_modules/, dist/, generated files
--apply Opt-in write mode; default is read-only plan

Parse arguments before dispatching Wave 1. Resolve scope to a concrete file list or diff stat and attach it to every sub-agent prompt.


Wave 1 — Parallel discovery (read-only)

Dispatch all four lenses simultaneously as research-agent sub-agents. All are strictly read-only — no writes, no installs that modify package.json. Optional tooling (jscpd, knip) is an accelerant only; degrade to grep/structural reasoning when absent or network-gated.

(a) Duplication / clone detection

Find exact and near-duplicate logic blocks across modules within scope. Optionally seed with:

npx jscpd <scope> --reporters json --silent

If jscpd is absent, use grep for literal repetition and structural reasoning for semantic clones. Output: clone clusters with file:line ranges, estimated token overlap, and a suggested extraction site.

Read the full file on GitHub · 126 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. 1mo ago First seen · 126 lines · 76 tokens per session scan A a984a5078729

Subscribe to this mod's changes

simplify is a skill published in the GitHub repository griffinwork40/agent-afk (61 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 76 tokens to every session and 1,746 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5.5. 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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