simplify-and-harden

simplify-and-harden is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from pskoett/pskoett-ai-skills. It costs 77 tokens per session (6,139 once invoked), scanned A, original, no licence file.

A post-completion review skill for non-trivial code changes. It checks whether the result can be simpler, more robust, and better documented, with a separate approach for CI pipelines.

In plain words
What is it for?
Reviewing completed coding tasks through simplification, hardening, and small documentation improvements.
Why use it?
It provides a bounded final check for avoidable complexity, weaknesses, and missing small explanations before the work is marked done.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Which agent this was written for is unclear — body not stored (licence); the path alone says nothing. Also seen: installed under .agents/ (shared by several agents).

Good fit Reviewing completed coding tasks through simplification, hardening, and small documentation improvements.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/pskoett/pskoett-ai-skills/simplify-and-harden
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 pskoett/pskoett-ai-skills --skill simplify-and-harden
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/pskoett/pskoett-ai-skills

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.

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README.md
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Your own site
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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.

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Per session 77 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 6,139 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. Third-party audits
  • Socket pass 26 Oct 2026
  • Snyk pass 26 Oct 2026
How audits are shown
Origin unknown 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 $0.00077 $0.06139
Opus 5.5 $0.00031 $0.02456
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00015 $0.01228
Haiku 4.5 $0.00008 $0.00614

Measured 11d ago against content hash f5b8c79e9a62, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

simplify-and-harden 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 11d 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.

.agents/skills/simplify-and-harden/SKILL.md · 597 lines

The source is not reproduced here

No licence file

A repository with no LICENSE is all rights reserved by default, so the body is not copied here. The metadata, the measurements and the link are.

Read it on GitHub

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. 11d ago Changed · +26 lines f5b8c79e9a62
  2. 19d ago Changed · +51 lines · +6 tokens per session 0573fcf56af9
  3. 2mo ago First seen · 520 lines · 71 tokens per session scan A 427f447a8ce9

Subscribe to this mod's changes

simplify-and-harden is a skill published in the GitHub repository pskoett/pskoett-ai-skills (328 stars, last pushed 10d ago), with no licence file. It adds 77 tokens to every session and 6,139 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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