s4h-aesthetic-simplicity-analysis

s4h-aesthetic-simplicity-analysis is a skill for Claude Code from human-avatar/skills-for-humanity. It costs 74 tokens per session (1,278 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A guided method for simplifying a strategy, product, message, design, process, or argument while preserving its essential purpose.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when asking what can be removed, when a design or process feels too complicated, or when you want a clearer core version.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish necessary parts from accumulated complexity instead of removing things without considering what they contribute.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin. Also seen: names the AskUserQuestion tool.

Part of the skills-for-humanity plugin — 197 skills, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it when asking what can be removed, when a design or process feels too complicated, or when you want a clearer core version.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/human-avatar/skills-for-humanity/s4h-aesthetic-simplicity-analysis
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 human-avatar/skills-for-humanity --skill s4h-aesthetic-simplicity-analysis
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/human-avatar/skills-for-humanity

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install skills-for-humanity, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 197 skills, 1 hook.

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README.md
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Per session 74 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,278 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 pass 7 Sept 2026
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 $0.00074 $0.01278
Opus 5 $0.00037 $0.00639
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00256
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00128

Measured 12d ago against content hash 3daaaf3ba004, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

s4h-aesthetic-simplicity-analysis 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 12d 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:

skills/s4h-aesthetic-simplicity-analysis/SKILL.md · 121 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 121 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Aesthetic Simplicity Analysis

Simplicity is not minimalism for its own sake — it is the clarity that emerges when everything that obscures the essence has been removed. Most things accumulate layers: additions made under pressure, elements that hedge against edge cases, features added to satisfy someone who asked. The result is a thing that does everything adequately and nothing powerfully. This skill finds the core and tests what must stay, what can go, and what removal would actually cost.


Your Process

Step 1: State the Thing and Its Purpose What is it, and what is it supposed to do? Name the object — a strategy, product, message, design, process, argument — and state its job in one sentence. If the purpose isn't clear, clarifying it is the first act of simplification.

Framing check: Confirm the specific subject before continuing. State what you've identified — the actual object being analyzed and its intended purpose — in one sentence, then use AskUserQuestion:

  • Question: "I'm reading this as: [your one-sentence framing of the specific object and its purpose]. Is that right?"
  • Header: "Framing"
  • Options:
    • Yes — proceed — framing is correct
    • Adjust — one element is off; user will correct it before you continue
    • Reframe — different situation than read; incorporate the correction before proceeding

Step 2: Find the Essence If you could keep only one thing — one idea, one element, one mechanism — and it had to carry the entire weight of the purpose, what would it be? State this as one sentence. This is the essence. Everything else in the analysis flows from whether it serves this or doesn't.

Step 3: Classify Each Element Go through every component or layer. Assign each one of three classifications:

  • Essence — it is the core, or it expresses the core directly and powerfully
  • Supporting the essence — it helps the core do its job; without it the essence is harder to access or less effective
  • Obscuring the essence — it dilutes the core, competes with it for attention, or adds noise that the reader or user must filter out to reach what matters

Read the full file on GitHub · 121 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. 12d ago First seen · 121 lines · 74 tokens per session scan A 3daaaf3ba004

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s4h-aesthetic-simplicity-analysis is a skill published in the GitHub repository human-avatar/skills-for-humanity (223 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 74 tokens to every session and 1,278 once invoked, about $0.0004 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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