kandev: Skill for Claude Code

.agents/skills/simplify/SKILL.md

simplify is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from kdlbs/kandev. It costs 38 tokens per session (543 once invoked), scanned A, original, AGPL-3.0.

A code-cleanup guide for recently changed code. It focuses on making implementations clearer by removing unnecessary layers and reducing complexity.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inline one-use abstractions, remove speculative code, reduce nesting, and replace clever implementations with straightforward ones during an explicit cleanup or review fix.
Why use it?
It helps turn working but overcomplicated changes into code that is easier to read and maintain.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

This is kdlbs/kandev's own configuration. It tells Claude Code and Codex how to work on kandev itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything kandev configures →

About the project

Kandev is a self-hostable workspace for organizing software tasks and running multiple AI coding agents in parallel, with Kanban views, change review, and pull request support. Developers use it to coordinate agents from different providers and inspect their work in one place. The catalogue entries extend its agent workflows and development environment.

kdlbs/kandev · 1,026 stars · on GitHub · kandev.ai

Reuse

Borrowing it

Nothing to install: this file belongs to kdlbs/kandev. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.

Copy the file
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kdlbs/kandev/main/.agents/skills/simplify/SKILL.md
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kdlbs/kandev

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 38 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 543 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 unknown 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 $0.00038 $0.00543
Opus 5.5 $0.00015 $0.00217
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00008 $0.00109
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00054

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 6f7b53c417d7, 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 1mo 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.

.agents/skills/simplify/SKILL.md · 70 lines

The source is not reproduced here

Licensed AGPL-3.0

The repository is licensed AGPL-3.0, which this catalogue does not treat as permission to reproduce the file. Read it at the source.

Read it on GitHub

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. 1mo ago First seen · 70 lines · 38 tokens per session scan A 6f7b53c417d7

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simplify is a skill published in the GitHub repository kdlbs/kandev (1,026 stars, last pushed today), licensed AGPL-3.0. It adds 38 tokens to every session and 543 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 2026-08-30.

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