simplify-stuff

simplify-stuff is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from reidemeister94/development-skills. It costs 45 tokens per session (263 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A deep editing pass for simplifying a group of files, including documentation, skills, or plugins. It also checks related files and links so the changes fit the wider project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when simplifying files or project instructions. It reads connected material, rewrites it more clearly, checks references, and records what was removed and why.
Why use it?
It removes duplicated or unclear material while checking that important commands, names, paths, and references still work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the development-skills plugin — 16 skills, 1 agent, 2 hooks shipped together

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/reidemeister94/development-skills/simplify-stuff
Any agent
npx skills add reidemeister94/development-skills --skill simplify-stuff
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/reidemeister94/development-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install development-skills, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 16 skills, 1 agent, 2 hooks.

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 simplify-stuff

README.md
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Your own site
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/reidemeister94/development-skills/simplify-stuff"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/reidemeister94/development-skills/simplify-stuff.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>
Per session 45 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 263 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 $0.00045 $0.00263
Opus 5 $0.00023 $0.00131
Sonnet 5 $0.00009 $0.00053
Haiku 4.5 $0.00005 $0.00026

Measured 5d ago against content hash c5b249d46564, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

simplify-stuff 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 5d 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.

skills/simplify-stuff/SKILL.md · 17 lines

What it actually says

simplify-stuff

The argument is the target scope. Run a deep pass that applies the writing contract to existing files:

  1. Read every file in the scope, plus the files each one references or shares content with — judge a file inside its ecosystem, never alone. Check what points at the scope from outside before restructuring, so no link or section reference breaks.
  2. Rewrite each file to the contract, deduplicating across the whole scope: each fact lands in its one right home and the other files link to it.
  3. Verify before finishing: grep that load-bearing specific tokens (names, paths, commands, conventions) survived; confirm nothing active links to removed content; and check the result is both shorter and clearer — when a cut would lose real capability, relocate the content instead of deleting it.

Record what was removed and why in the project's usual decision record, so cuts stay recoverable.

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. 5d ago First seen · 17 lines · 45 tokens per session scan A c5b249d46564

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simplify-stuff is a skill published in the GitHub repository reidemeister94/development-skills (11 stars, last pushed 1mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 45 tokens to every session and 263 once invoked, about $0.0002 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 2026-08-30.

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