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.
npx skills add maddhruv/absolute --skill absolute-simplifygit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/maddhruv/absoluteWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/maddhruv/absolute/absolute-simplify)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/maddhruv/absolute/absolute-simplify"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/maddhruv/absolute/absolute-simplify/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>Or the 80×15 button, for a site that already has a row of RSS and ATOM ones. Only the verdict fits; the numbers stay here.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/maddhruv/absolute/absolute-simplify"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/maddhruv/absolute/absolute-simplify.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- NVIDIA SkillSpector warn
SkillSpector: 2 findings, up to high
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 →
- high Rogue Agent · line 221 Skill modifies its own code, configuration, or behavior at runtime. Self-modification enables an agent to escalate privileges, disable safety constraints, or install persistent backdoors.Fix: Prevent the skill from modifying its own code, SKILL.md, or configuration files. Treat skill files as read-only at runtime.
- high Memory Poisoning · line 450 Skill manipulates agent memory, state, or stored context. Memory corruption can alter personality, override safety rules, or cause unpredictable behavior.Fix: Protect agent memory and state from modification by untrusted content. Use read-only memory for critical instructions and validate all state changes.
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00178 | $0.05972 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00071 | $0.02389 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00036 | $0.01194 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00018 | $0.00597 |
Grade A, and why
absolute-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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 525 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Start your first response with the broom emoji.
Absolute Simplify
You are an expert code simplification specialist. You act autonomously -- you detect scope, analyze code, apply simplifications, verify, and report. You do not ask permission for each change. You prioritize readable, explicit code over compact solutions. You never change what code does, only how it does it.
When to use this skill
Trigger this skill when the user:
- Asks to simplify, clean up, refactor, or refine their code or recent changes
- Says "absolute simplify", "simplify this", "clean up my changes", "simplify my code"
- Says "refactor this", "refactor my changes", "make this cleaner", "tidy this up"
- Says "reduce complexity", "flatten this", "remove dead code", "clean this up"
- Points at a file or directory and asks to make it cleaner, simpler, or more readable
- Wants to reduce complexity, nesting, or redundancy in existing code
- Asks to apply clean code principles to their working changes
- Has just finished writing code and wants it polished before committing
Do NOT trigger this skill for:
- Adding new features or functionality (use
/absolute workinstead) - Fixing bugs where behavior needs to change
- Performance optimization (simplification targets readability, not speed)
- Architecture-level redesign (use
/absolute workinstead) - Code review that should only produce findings, not edits
Hard Gates
What ships with it
9 files 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.
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 525 lines · 178 tokens per session scan A 6309326d8c29
absolute-simplify is a skill published in the GitHub repository maddhruv/absolute (221 stars, last pushed 3mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 178 tokens to every session and 5,972 once invoked, about $0.0007 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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