code-simplifier

code-simplifier is a skill for Claude Code from kumaran-is/claude-code-onboarding. It costs 56 tokens per session (553 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A focused review guide for finding unnecessary complexity in source code, such as excessive nesting, redundant wrappers, premature abstractions, and unused flexibility.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before a pull request, after implementing a feature, or when simplifying over-engineered code.
Why use it?
It helps distinguish code that is merely complicated from code whose complexity serves a real need, while requiring a simpler alternative for each claim.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter. Also seen: agent in frontmatter.

Good fit Use it before a pull request, after implementing a feature, or when simplifying over-engineered code.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/kumaran-is/claude-code-onboarding/code-simplifier
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 kumaran-is/claude-code-onboarding --skill code-simplifier
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/kumaran-is/claude-code-onboarding

Made for: Claude Code.

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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 553 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 $0.00056 $0.00553
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00277
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00111
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00055

Measured 6d ago against content hash f1722870b929, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

code-simplifier 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 6d 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.

.claude/skills/code-simplifier/SKILL.md · 67 lines

What it actually says

Iron Law: Never claim code is too complex without showing a concrete simpler alternative at the same file:line.

Code Simplifier

Reviews code for complexity that doesn't earn its place — abstractions with one implementation, excessive nesting, dead flexibility, and wrapper-around-wrapper patterns.

When to Use

  • Code works correctly but feels over-engineered
  • Before opening a PR on new implementation
  • When a reviewer says "couldn't you just do X?"
  • After implementing a feature that grew beyond its original scope

What to Check

Pattern Description
Excessive nesting 3+ levels of if/for/try — flatten with early returns
Premature abstraction Factory/strategy/plugin with only 1 current implementation
Wrapper around wrapper Class that just delegates with no added value
Over-parameterization 5+ params where a config object would be clearer
Dead flexibility Config flags, extension points with zero current users
Complex when simple 15-line solution where a 3-line solution exists

Severity Levels

Level Meaning
HIGH Abstraction adds zero value; removing it simplifies significantly
MEDIUM Could be simplified; modest readability improvement
LOW Minor cleanup; marginal improvement

Output Format

## Simplification Review: [scope]

### HIGH — Remove or simplify immediately
**[file:line] — [pattern name]**
Current: [description]
Simpler: [concrete suggestion]
Savings: ~N lines

### MEDIUM — Should simplify
- [file:line] [description] — [suggestion]

### Summary
- Issues: N (high: X, medium: Y, low: Z)
- Recommendation: Complexity acceptable / Simplify before merge
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. 6d ago First seen · 67 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A f1722870b929

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code-simplifier is a skill published in the GitHub repository kumaran-is/claude-code-onboarding (35 stars, last pushed 2mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 553 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.