simplify

simplify is a skill for Claude Code from jcwleo/oh-no-harness. It costs 41 tokens per session (3,290 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A cleanup step for changed code after its behavior has been confirmed. It looks for reuse, simpler structure, better efficiency, and abstractions that fit the code.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after implementation to simplify a diff, reduce duplication, improve efficiency, and correct abstractions that are too broad or too narrow.
Why use it?
It removes unnecessary complexity before review while preserving the behavior that was already checked.

Skill for Claude Code

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

Part of the oh-no-harness plugin — 12 skills, 12 commands, 9 agents, 1 hook shipped together

Good fit Use it after implementation to simplify a diff, reduce duplication, improve efficiency, and correct abstractions that are too broad or too narrow.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jcwleo/oh-no-harness/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 jcwleo/oh-no-harness --skill simplify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jcwleo/oh-no-harness

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install oh-no-harness, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 12 skills, 12 commands, 9 agents, 1 hook.

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
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/jcwleo/oh-no-harness/simplify"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/jcwleo/oh-no-harness/simplify.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 41 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,290 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.
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 $0.00041 $0.03290
Opus 5 $0.00020 $0.01645
Sonnet 5 $0.00008 $0.00658
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00329

Measured 8d ago against content hash 3d2b2b132bb3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-08, 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 8d 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.

plugins/oh-no-harness/skills-claude/simplify/SKILL.md · 327 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 327 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Simplify for Claude Code

This generated file is the Claude Code-facing runtime skill document. Claude Code slash commands should read this file directly; maintainers edit the source documents listed below instead.

Generated Runtime Composition

Source order:

  • ../../docs/skill-core/simplify.md
  • ../../docs/platforms/claude-code-runtime.md
  • ../../docs/platforms/claude-code-simplify.md

The sections below are already composed for this platform. Do not ask the runtime model to load another platform's runtime document or invocation syntax.

Source: docs/skill-core/simplify.md

Simplify

Simplify reviews changed code for reuse, simplification, efficiency, and altitude issues, then applies behavior-preserving fixes. Its main skill pass is read-only discovery; accepted repository work-product cleanup is applied through executor, with inline mutation only as a recorded LIGHT-tiny or dispatch-unavailable fallback.

It is a skill, not an agent. In Oh No Harness, ralph uses it after the behavior lock and BEFORE the single review round, so the sole review sees the cleaned diff; the active platform runtime document supplies the matching simplify skill. When called by ralph, Simplify may be loaded or invoked only for eligible THOROUGH cleanup after Ralph's quick diff scan finds actual candidates or candidate uncertainty remains. A clean THOROUGH quick scan records Simplify as not required without invoking it. Direct Simplify use remains independently selected by its own behavior lock and Cleanup Depth Decision.

This is quality cleanup, not bug hunting. Use code-reviewer or the host's code-review workflow for correctness bugs.

Software Development Stage

Simplify is the post-implementation, pre-review cleanup stage.

Use it after behavior is locked and before the caller's single review round, so that review sees the cleaned diff. It should improve reuse, clarity, maintainability, and efficiency without changing behavior, adding scope, or replacing implementation review.

Read the full file on GitHub · 327 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. 8d ago First seen · 327 lines · 41 tokens per session scan A 3d2b2b132bb3

Subscribe to this mod's changes

simplify is a skill published in the GitHub repository jcwleo/oh-no-harness (11 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 41 tokens to every session and 3,290 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 2026-08-30.

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