code-simplification

code-simplification is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development. It costs 56 tokens per session (1,465 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A workflow for making a named piece of code shorter, clearer, or less repetitive while keeping its behavior the same.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to simplify a file, module, function, or code range, either by measuring reductions against tests or by reasoning through the existing behavior.
Why use it?
It reduces duplication and complicated branches without adding a new public interface or expanding the refactor beyond the chosen target.

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/outlinedriven/outline-driven-development/code-simplification
Any agent
npx skills add OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development --skill code-simplification
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development

Made for: Claude Code, 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.

agentmods badge for code-simplification

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/outlinedriven/outline-driven-development/code-simplification"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/outlinedriven/outline-driven-development/code-simplification.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 56 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,465 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 $0.00056 $0.01465
Opus 5 $0.00028 $0.00732
Sonnet 5 $0.00011 $0.00293
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00146

Measured yesterday against content hash c01cf111dd93, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

code-simplification 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 yesterday.

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

Copies of this mod

1 near-identical copy found in the catalogue:

.devin/skills/code-simplification/SKILL.md · 69 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 69 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Code simplification

Two modes share one authority: reversible local edits to a named target, no new public surface, behavior preserved. Measured mode proves reduction with the test suite; clarity mode proves preservation by reasoning over the recorded behavior contract.

Contract

Field Bound contract
Trigger User asks to simplify, clean, refactor, or improve the readability of code, or review flags bloat beyond the current diff.
Authority Reversible local edits to the named target only. May refactor, extract, inline, and collapse conditionals; may not add new public surface or edit files outside the target.
Side effect Refactoring edits to the named target only; no new public surface.
Done Mode-specific done predicate holds (see each mode); behavior is preserved by tests (measured) or by recorded-contract reasoning (clarity).

Inputs

  • Target (required): the file, module, function, or range to simplify. Named by the user.
  • Test command (required for measured mode): the command that runs the test suite proving behavior preservation.
  • Bloat signal (optional, measured mode): a review-flagged duplication hotspot or branch-complexity concern to prioritize. If absent, measure duplication and branch complexity on the target.
  • Constraints (optional, clarity mode): behavior that must stay identical (public signatures, outputs, side effects, ordering). Infer these from the code when omitted.

Mode selection

User says Mode Gate
simplify, clean, debloat, reduce duplication or complexity, review flagged bloat measured Test suite green and bloat signal lower than baseline
simplify for readability, clean up, refactor for clarity, make this clearer clarity Recorded behavior contract unchanged after each edit

When the user names a test command or a bloat signal, use measured mode. When the user names only a readability goal and no test command, use clarity mode. When both are supplied, use measured mode and prefer clarity-preserving candidates.

Read the full file on GitHub · 69 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. yesterday First seen · 69 lines · 56 tokens per session scan A c01cf111dd93

Subscribe to this mod's changes

code-simplification is a skill published in the GitHub repository OutlineDriven/outline-driven-development (52 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 56 tokens to every session and 1,465 once invoked, about $0.0003 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 2026-09-03.

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