simplify

A code-cleanup workflow used after tests pass. TDD, or test-driven development, is a cycle of writing a failing test, making it pass, and then improving the code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to remove dead code, simplify conditions, extract helpers, improve names, and reduce duplication after implementing a feature.
Why use it?
It helps make working code clearer and less repetitive while checking that its behavior does not change.

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Per session 24 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 446 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 $0.00024 $0.00446
Opus 5 $0.00012 $0.00223
Sonnet 5 $0.00005 $0.00089
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00045

Measured yesterday against content hash 7cfcee1012c0, 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 yesterday.

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 · 83 lines

What it actually says

/simplify

Refactor and clean up code after tests pass.

Usage

/simplify
/simplify src/openenv/core/client.py

When to Use

  • After /implement makes tests pass
  • When code is correct but could be cleaner
  • Before creating a PR (optional polish step)

When NOT to Use

  • Tests are failing (fix tests first)
  • You want to add new functionality (use /write-tests first)
  • Code is already clean and simple

What It Does

  1. Runs tests to ensure they pass (baseline)
  2. Identifies opportunities for simplification
  3. Refactors while keeping tests green
  4. Runs tests after each change to verify nothing broke

Philosophy

This is TDD's third phase: Red → Green → Refactor.

The goal is NOT to add features or change behavior. The goal is to make the code:

  • Easier to read
  • Easier to maintain
  • More consistent with project patterns
  • Less duplicated

Guidelines

Good Simplifications

  • Extract helper functions to reduce duplication
  • Rename variables for clarity
  • Remove dead code
  • Simplify complex conditionals
  • Use more Pythonic idioms

NOT Simplifications (Avoid)

  • Adding new features
  • Changing public APIs
  • "Improving" code that works and is readable
  • Adding abstractions for hypothetical future needs

Completion Criteria

  1. All tests still pass
  2. Code is cleaner/simpler than before
  3. No new functionality was added
  4. Changes follow project patterns (see PATTERNS.md)

Integration with TDD Workflow

/write-tests  →  create failing tests (Red)
    ↓
/implement    →  make tests pass (Green)
    ↓
/simplify     →  clean up code (Refactor)
    ↓
/pre-submit-pr   →  validate before PR
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. yesterday First seen · 83 lines · 24 tokens per session scan A 7cfcee1012c0

Subscribe to this mod's changes

simplify is a skill published in the GitHub repository huggingface/OpenEnv (2,531 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed BSD-3-Clause. It adds 24 tokens to every session and 446 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 2026-08-31.

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