absolute-simplify

absolute-simplify is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from maddhruv/absolute. It costs 178 tokens per session (5,972 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A specialist workflow for making existing code simpler without changing what it does. It examines the requested files or Git changes, removes unnecessary complexity, and runs tests to check the result.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to flatten deeply nested code, remove redundancy or dead code, reduce complexity, and polish staged or unstaged changes before committing.
Why use it?
It makes code easier to read and maintain while limiting changes that add little value. Tests provide evidence that the simplification did not break behavior.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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.

agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/maddhruv/absolute/absolute-simplify
Any agent
npx skills add maddhruv/absolute --skill absolute-simplify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/maddhruv/absolute

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 178 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 5,972 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. Scan, not verified.
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 $0.00178 $0.05972
Opus 5 $0.00089 $0.02986
Sonnet 5 $0.00036 $0.01194
Haiku 4.5 $0.00018 $0.00597

Measured 4d ago against content hash 6309326d8c29, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

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 4d 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/absolute-simplify/SKILL.md · 525 lines

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 work instead)
  • Fixing bugs where behavior needs to change
  • Performance optimization (simplification targets readability, not speed)
  • Architecture-level redesign (use /absolute work instead)
  • Code review that should only produce findings, not edits

Hard Gates

Read the full file on GitHub · 525 lines

Files

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.

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. 4d ago First seen · 525 lines · 178 tokens per session scan A 6309326d8c29

Subscribe to this mod's changes

absolute-simplify is a skill published in the GitHub repository maddhruv/absolute (209 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 178 tokens to every session and 5,972 once invoked, about $0.0009 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 2026-08-30.

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