simplify

simplify is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from QwenLM/qwen-code. It costs 63 tokens per session (1,113 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A cleanup review for recent code changes that looks for repeated code, quality issues, and inefficient implementations, then applies straightforward improvements.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review uncommitted changes, staged changes, or files edited during the current conversation and apply safe simplifications.
Why use it?
It catches small problems before a pull request or after implementation, reducing unnecessary duplication and making the changed code easier to maintain.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex ✓ vendor

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to review uncommitted changes, staged changes, or files edited during the current conversation and apply safe simplifications.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/qwenlm/qwen-code/simplify
About the project

Qwen Code is an open-source AI coding agent that runs in a terminal and helps developers work with code through language models. It supports multiple model providers and can also be used through IDEs, desktop software, SDKs, and messaging bots.

QwenLM/qwen-code · 28,528 stars · on GitHub · qwenlm.github.io

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 QwenLM/qwen-code --skill simplify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/QwenLM/qwen-code

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 63 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,113 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
  • Snyk pass 7 Sept 2026
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
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 $0.00063 $0.01113
Opus 5.5 $0.00025 $0.00445
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00013 $0.00223
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00111

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 739a6293f0c3, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

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 1mo 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.

packages/core/src/skills/bundled/simplify/SKILL.md · 124 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 124 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Simplify Recent Changes

You are running a structured cleanup workflow over recent code changes. Your goal is not just to comment on the code, but to safely improve it.

Step 1: Identify the review scope

Determine which files and changes to review.

  1. First inspect the current git state.
  2. If there are staged changes, review against HEAD so both staged and unstaged tracked changes are included.
  3. Otherwise review the current uncommitted diff.
  4. If there is no git diff, fall back to git ls-files --modified --others --exclude-standard so the scope respects .gitignore (this keeps build output, node_modules, and other ignored paths out of the cleanup).
  5. If that is still empty, fall back to files edited in this conversation.
  6. If you still cannot identify a meaningful scope, stop and tell the user there are no recent changes to simplify.

Preferred commands:

  • git diff --name-only
  • git diff --staged --name-only
  • git diff HEAD --name-only
  • git diff
  • git diff HEAD
  • git status --short

Use git diff HEAD whenever staged changes exist. Otherwise use git diff.

Step 2: Launch three review passes in parallel

Use the agent tool and launch all review passes in a single response so they run concurrently. Set subagent_type: "general-purpose" and run_in_background: false on every call — each pass must return its findings inline. Do NOT fork them: never set subagent_type: "fork". A fork runs fire-and-forget and never returns its findings, so there would be nothing to aggregate in Step 3. Each pass must receive the same review scope and diff command. These passes are read-only: each one inspects and reports findings only and must not modify files — all edits happen later in Step 4.

Keep each review prompt short and focused. Do not paste the full diff into the prompt. Tell each pass to read the diff itself and inspect only files relevant to its findings.

Pass 1: Code Reuse Review

Look for opportunities to reduce duplication and reuse existing code:

Read the full file on GitHub · 124 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. 1mo ago First seen · 124 lines · 63 tokens per session scan A 739a6293f0c3

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simplify is a skill published in the GitHub repository QwenLM/qwen-code (28,528 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 63 tokens to every session and 1,113 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.