simplify-code

simplify-code is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from nobodyohm-web/Thot. It costs 14 tokens per session (3,381 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of simplify-code, MIT.

A cleanup review for recent code changes that looks for duplication, unnecessary complexity, wasted work, and shallow fixes. It uses several focused reviewers in parallel.

In plain words
What is it for?
Simplifying recently edited code, reviewing changes for reuse and efficiency, and applying worthwhile cleanup before the work is finished.
Why use it?
It helps make working code easier to maintain without turning the review into a search for unrelated correctness bugs.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one. Also seen: mentions CLAUDE.md; mentions subagents; mentions Claude Code.

Good fit Simplifying recently edited code, reviewing changes for reuse and efficiency, and applying worthwhile cleanup before the work is finished.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/nobodyohm-web/thot/simplify-code
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 nobodyohm-web/Thot --skill simplify-code
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/nobodyohm-web/Thot

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 14 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 3,381 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 98% copy Near-identical to another mod 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 $0.00014 $0.03381
Opus 5 $0.00007 $0.01690
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00676
Haiku 4.5 $0.00001 $0.00338

Measured 3d ago against content hash c259970bff23, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

simplify-code 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 3d 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.

Origin

This is a copy

98% identical to simplify-code — 2 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

hermes/skills/software-development/simplify-code/SKILL.md · 271 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 271 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Simplify Code — Parallel Review & Cleanup

Review your recent code changes with four focused reviewers running in parallel, aggregate their findings, and apply the fixes worth applying.

This is a cleanup pass, not a bug hunt. You are improving the quality of code that already works — removing duplication, flattening needless complexity, cutting waste, and deepening band-aid fixes. Do not go hunting for correctness bugs here; that's what requesting-code-review is for.

Core principle: Four narrow reviewers beat one broad reviewer. Each one deeply searches the codebase for a single class of problem — reuse, quality, efficiency, altitude — without diluting its attention across all four. They run concurrently, so you pay the latency of one review, not four.

When to Use

Trigger this skill when the user says any of:

  • "simplify" / "simplify my changes" / "simplify these changes"
  • "review my code" / "review my recent changes" / "clean up my changes"
  • "/simplify" (if they're carrying the Claude Code habit over)

Optional modifiers the user may add — honor them:

  • Focus: "simplify focus on efficiency" → run only the efficiency reviewer (or weight the aggregation toward it). Recognized focuses: reuse, quality (also accepts simplification), efficiency, altitude.
  • Dry run: "simplify but don't change anything" / "just report" → run the four reviewers, present findings, apply NOTHING. Ask before applying.
  • Scope: "simplify the last commit" / "simplify staged" / "simplify src/foo.py" → narrow the diff source accordingly (see Phase 1).

Do NOT auto-run this after every edit or tack it onto the end of unrelated tasks. It costs four subagents' worth of tokens — invoke it only when the user explicitly asks.

The Process

Phase 1 — Identify the changes

Capture the diff to review. Pick the source by what the user asked for, in this default order:

# 1. Default: uncommitted working-tree changes (tracked files)
git diff

# 2. If that's empty, include staged changes
git diff HEAD

# 3. Scoped variants the user may request:
git diff --staged                 # "staged changes"
git diff HEAD~1                    # "the last commit"
git diff main...HEAD              # "this branch" / "my PR"
git diff -- src/foo.py            # specific file(s)

Read the full file on GitHub · 271 lines

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. 3d ago First seen · 271 lines · 14 tokens per session scan A c259970bff23

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simplify-code is a skill published in the GitHub repository nobodyohm-web/Thot (0 stars, last pushed 12d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 14 tokens to every session and 3,381 once invoked, about $0.0001 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 98% identical to simplify-code, differing in 2 lines, and is treated as a copy.