kiss

kiss is a skill for Claude Code from jerseycheese/agent-skills. It costs 72 tokens per session (544 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A review guide for keeping a code change as small as possible. KISS means “Keep It Simple,” and the guide removes unrelated refactoring, cleanup, abstractions, and extra changes from a diff.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to trim pull requests or working changes to the files and logic required for the stated goal.
Why use it?
It keeps fixes easier to understand, review, test, and maintain. It also limits accidental changes that are unrelated to the original task.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: shipped in a Claude Code plugin.

Part of the workflow-skills plugin — 31 skills shipped together

Good fit Use it to trim pull requests or working changes to the files and logic required for the stated goal.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jerseycheese/agent-skills/kiss
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 jerseycheese/agent-skills --skill kiss
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jerseycheese/agent-skills

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install workflow-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 31 skills.

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README.md
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Per session 72 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 544 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 $0.00072 $0.00544
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00272
Sonnet 5 $0.00014 $0.00109
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00054

Measured 10d ago against content hash 24aa418b0e93, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kiss 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 10d 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.

skills/kiss/SKILL.md · 51 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 51 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

KISS — Keep It Minimal

Purpose

Given a diff or staged changes, strip everything down to the smallest set of modifications that achieves the stated goal. Nothing more.

What to remove or simplify

  • Refactors or restructuring not required by the fix
  • Variable/function renames that aren't part of the stated goal
  • Comment additions or edits beyond the changed lines
  • Import reordering or cleanup
  • Whitespace normalization unrelated to the change
  • "While I'm here" fixes — flag these as separate tasks instead
  • New abstractions or helpers not required by the change
  • Extra test coverage beyond what directly tests the change
  • Style or formatting changes outside the modified logic

What to simplify (overengineering)

  • Constants or data structures that wrap what could be inline literals
  • Helper functions called only once — inline them
  • Intermediate variables that just rename what they hold
  • Multi-step logic that can be a single expression
  • Generic/parameterized code where one concrete case exists
  • Abstractions built for hypothetical future callers
  • Overly defensive null checks or fallbacks for impossible states
  • Tests with elaborate setup for simple assertions — simplify the fixture

Process

  1. Identify the stated goal — what is this change trying to do? One sentence.
  2. Read the full diffgit diff HEAD or git diff --staged
  3. For each hunk, ask: is this hunk strictly required to achieve the goal? If no, mark it for removal.
  4. Separate the extras — list anything removed with a one-line reason; offer to file each as a standalone task.
  5. Apply the trimmed diff — edit files to remove the extras, keeping only what's necessary.
  6. Verify — run tests on the trimmed change to confirm it still achieves the goal.

Rules

  • Prefer editing one line over editing a function; prefer editing a function over editing a file.
  • A change that touches N files should touch N-1 files if possible.
  • If in doubt about whether something is necessary, remove it and note it.
  • Never introduce new patterns or dependencies in a KISS pass.
  • Flagged extras go into a list at the end — never silently dropped.

Read the full file on GitHub · 51 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. 10d ago First seen · 51 lines · 72 tokens per session scan A 24aa418b0e93

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kiss is a skill published in the GitHub repository jerseycheese/agent-skills (1 stars, last pushed 9d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 72 tokens to every session and 544 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 2026-08-31.

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