simplify

simplify is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from jstoup111/ai-conductor. It costs 56 tokens per session (2,824 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A review step for code changed in the current pipeline batch, checking for repeated business logic, unnecessary complexity, and over-engineering.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it at batch boundaries to compare changed files and related tests, then extract duplicated behavior while leaving merely similar code structure alone.
Why use it?
It catches problems accumulating across a batch without turning every code review into a full codebase audit.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: model in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it at batch boundaries to compare changed files and related tests, then extract duplicated behavior while leaving merely similar code structure alone.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/jstoup111/ai-conductor/simplify
Install

Getting it into your agent

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Any agent
npx skills add jstoup111/ai-conductor --skill simplify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/jstoup111/ai-conductor

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,824 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: 1 finding, 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 Excessive Agency · line 9
    Skill selects an external model or provider that may use a different account or billing plan than the operator expects. Undisclosed model switches can cause unexpected cost or quota consumption.
    Fix: Remove the model/provider override or disclose it prominently and require explicit operator approval before invoking an external coding CLI or billed model.
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 $0.00056 $0.02824
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.01130
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00565
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00282

Measured 10d ago against content hash cb54e9f84844, 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 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/simplify/SKILL.md · 248 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 248 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Purpose

Runs at pipeline batch boundaries. Catches accumulated duplication, complexity, over-engineering, and domain-modelling defects before they compound across batches. Enforces "dry business logic, not dry code" — extract shared behavior, not shared shape.

This is NOT a full codebase audit. It is scoped to the current batch's changes, except that changed tests must be compared with existing tests at the same production seam.

Practices

1. Scope Detection

Identify files changed in the current batch:

git diff <batch-start-commit>..HEAD --name-only

Keep non-test analysis limited to these files. For each changed or added test, additionally inspect existing tests at the same production seam; do not scan unrelated code or tests. The batch-start commit is available from .pipeline/audit-trail/batch-N/ or from the pipeline's progress log.

2. Duplication Check

Look for duplicated business logic across batch-changed files. Distinguish between:

Type Example Action
Duplicated behavior Same validation logic in two services Must extract
Duplicated shape Two serializers with similar structure Leave alone
Copy-paste with tweaks Same method with 1-2 param differences Extract with parameters — except a declared replication's exact mapped source/target pair alone is not an extract-with-parameters finding. Still flag undeclared duplication or similarity outside the declared target set; with no declaration, apply this row unchanged. A declared pair may retain an extraction finding when rationale beyond the declared replication merits it.

Flag when 3+ similar blocks exist across different files. Two similar blocks in the same file are a judgment call — flag only if the logic is non-trivial.

Before recommending extraction, inlining, or a competing abstraction, consult the applicable focused pattern basis (for example, the approved plan, architecture decision, or declared replication contract). Flag only a material, unapproved departure from that basis. Accept a variation the basis allows, a verified case where the proposed extraction does not fit the accepted design, or a departure that the operator or accepted artifact explicitly authorizes. This alignment check does not turn shared shape into shared behavior: extract only shared business behavior.

Read the full file on GitHub · 248 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 Changed · +34 lines · +5 tokens per session cb54e9f84844
  2. 2mo ago First seen · 214 lines · 51 tokens per session scan A 9a451a1a29e3

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simplify is a skill published in the GitHub repository jstoup111/ai-conductor (7 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 2,824 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-31.

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