midas-lean-review

midas-lean-review is a skill for Claude Code from okuzpe/midas-harness. It costs 73 tokens per session (1,132 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A review guide for finding unnecessary code in a change. It produces a list of things to remove or simplify but does not edit the files.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before closing a sprint, after a feature branch, or when you want an explicit list of code that could be deleted, replaced with standard tools, or reduced.
Why use it?
It helps keep a change smaller and easier to maintain by separating over-engineering from correctness, security, and performance problems.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter. Also seen: model in frontmatter; mentions AGENTS.md.

Good fit Use it before closing a sprint, after a feature branch, or when you want an explicit list of code that could be deleted, replaced with standard tools, or reduced.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/okuzpe/midas-harness/midas-lean-review
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 okuzpe/midas-harness --skill midas-lean-review
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/okuzpe/midas-harness

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 73 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,132 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 $0.00073 $0.01132
Opus 5 $0.00036 $0.00566
Sonnet 5 $0.00015 $0.00226
Haiku 4.5 $0.00007 $0.00113

Measured 10d ago against content hash 5e724dc6353e, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

midas-lean-review 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 10d 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.

cli/template/.harness/engine/skills/midas-lean-review/SKILL.md · 90 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 90 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

midas-lean-review — What to delete (over-engineering only)

Guard + state: <paths.engine>/templates/skill-state-ritual.md (+ AGENTS.md § Safety / Path resolution). Surface: internal (ADR-013) — prefer /close-sprint / fat-diff path-pass; power-user may still type this slash. Rule: <paths.engine>/rules/lean-ladder.md. Tally shape: <paths.engine>/templates/audit-checklists.md.

Standing complexity review (not a phase gate): hunt unnecessary code in the working tree / named paths. Report a delete-list; do not apply fixes unless the user explicitly asks after the report. Correctness, security, and performance bugs are out of scope — route those to normal review, /midas-security-audit, or /close-sprint.

Inspired by Ponytail's review format; Midas-owned procedure and freeze path.

Does / Does not

Does Does not
Rank over-engineering findings (delete / stdlib / native / yagni / shrink) Advance stage or pass gates
Optional {runs}/lean/lean-NN.md with --freeze Silently rewrite the tree
Emit MIDAS_LEAN_RESULT when freezing Replace /midas-sweep, /midas-qa, or Phase-8 audit

Scope

--scope Default target
diff (default) git diff against the default branch (or staged+unstaged if no upstream)
paths Only user-named paths
repo Broad pass — cap findings; prefer diff for sprint work

Finding tags (one line each)

path:Lstart-Lend: tag: what to cut. Replacement.

Tag Meaning
delete Dead / unused flexibility / speculative feature → nothing replaces it
stdlib Hand-rolled thing the standard library already does — name the API
native Dep or code doing what the platform already does — name the feature
yagni Abstraction with one implementation, config nobody sets, layer with one caller
shrink Same logic, fewer lines — show the shorter form

Never flag the lean minimum test/assert self-check as bloat. Never propose cutting trust-boundary validation, security, or accessibility required by sibling rules.

Read the full file on GitHub · 90 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. 10d ago First seen · 90 lines · 73 tokens per session scan A 5e724dc6353e

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midas-lean-review is a skill published in the GitHub repository okuzpe/midas-harness (2 stars, last pushed 6d ago), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 73 tokens to every session and 1,132 once invoked, about $0.0004 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 2026-08-31.