simplify

simplify is a skill for Codex from LegendApp/legend-skills. It costs 17 tokens per session (1,054 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A set of guidelines for keeping technical changes small, clear, and focused. It applies to code, tests, documentation, configuration, and related work.

In plain words
What is it for?
It is for guiding implementation, simplifying completed behavior, reviewing a full branch against its base, and checking that the final changes remain minimal without weakening functionality.
Why use it?
It helps prevent unnecessary complexity and removes temporary or superseded work before a change is handed over.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit It is for guiding implementation, simplifying completed behavior, reviewing a full branch against its base, and checking that the final changes remain minimal without weakening functionality.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/legendapp/legend-skills/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 LegendApp/legend-skills --skill simplify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LegendApp/legend-skills

Made for: Codex.

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 17 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,054 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
  • Socket pass 2 Sept 2026
  • Snyk pass 1 Sept 2026
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 $0.00017 $0.01054
Opus 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00422
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00003 $0.00211
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00105

Measured today against content hash 911147f746b3, 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 today.

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.

simplify/SKILL.md · 78 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 78 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Simplify

Produce the smallest clear implementation that fully satisfies the required behavior. Minimize concepts and moving parts, not line count.

Cadence

  • Before adding code, decide the smallest change that meets the requirement; each new concept must earn its place.
  • During construction, apply the priorities locally while discovering behavior. Allow clearly temporary instrumentation or scaffolding when it accelerates learning.
  • At convergence, once a logical behavior slice passes, simplify that slice, remove superseded attempts and scaffolding, and rerun focused validation.
  • For an explicitly requested branch audit, compare with the intended base. Otherwise review only the requested change; do not broaden a small cleanup into a whole-branch audit.

Workflow

  1. Identify the required behavior, invariants, constraints, and non-goals.
  2. Inspect the relevant diff and separate it into logical concepts. For a final branch audit, compare the full branch with its merge base and check history for superseded attempts when relevant.
  3. Inspect the existing owners, sources of truth, common path, decision points, and nearby code style before adding anything.
  4. Choose the design with the fewest necessary concepts and the least work at runtime.
  5. When changes are requested, implement directly and reuse existing mechanisms where they fit.
  6. Validate behavior with checks proportional to the risk.
  7. Review the final code, tests, names, comments, documentation, configuration, and relevant history for anything that no longer earns its complexity.

Simplification Priorities

  • Match the repository's existing style and patterns: naming, file layout, error handling, test style, and the libraries it already uses. Do not introduce a new pattern where an existing one fits.
  • Prefer deletion, reuse, or a direct change over a new abstraction.
  • Keep one source of truth; avoid mirrored state, overlapping guards, duplicate registries, and compensating mechanisms.
  • Where the repository has no convention, prefer straightforward positive control flow over early-return chains or empty branches.
  • On hot paths, minimize allocations, callback recreation, subscriptions, renders, passes, I/O, and native work.
  • For prose, remove repetition and keep the shortest wording or example that remains self-sufficient.

Read the full file on GitHub · 78 lines

Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. today Changed · +22 lines 911147f746b3
  2. 19d ago Changed · -61 tokens per session 1b577f827401
  3. 1mo ago First seen · 56 lines · 78 tokens per session scan A 310753403a87

Subscribe to this mod's changes

simplify is a skill published in the GitHub repository LegendApp/legend-skills (40 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 17 tokens to every session and 1,054 once invoked, about $0.0001 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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