rtk is a command-line proxy that filters and compresses output from development commands before it reaches an LLM's context. It is used with coding agents to reduce the tokens consumed by commands such as Git operations. The catalogue includes skills, commands, agents, and instructions for using rtk in agent workflows.
Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to rtk-ai/rtk. Take a copy, put it at the same path in your own repository, and replace the rules that are about this project with yours.
curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rtk-ai/rtk/develop/.claude/skills/code-simplifier/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtkWrote 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.
[](https://agentmods.dev/skills/rtk-ai/rtk/code-simplifier)<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/rtk-ai/rtk/code-simplifier"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rtk-ai/rtk/code-simplifier/github.svg" alt="Measured on agentmods" height="20"></a>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.
<a href="https://agentmods.dev/skills/rtk-ai/rtk/code-simplifier"><img src="https://agentmods.dev/badge/skills/rtk-ai/rtk/code-simplifier.svg" alt="Reviewed on agentmods" width="80" height="20"></a>- Socket pass
- Snyk pass
- NVIDIA SkillSpector pass
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.
| Model | Per session | Once invoked |
|---|---|---|
| Fable 5.1 | $0.00036 | $0.01169 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00014 | $0.00468 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00007 | $0.00234 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00004 | $0.00117 |
Grade A, and why
code-simplifier 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.
How it starts
The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 179 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
RTK Code Simplifier
Review and simplify Rust code in RTK while respecting the project's constraints.
Constraints (never simplify away)
LazyLockregex — cannot be moved inside functions even if "simpler".context()on every?— verbose but mandatory- Fallback to raw command — never remove even if it looks like dead code
- Exit code propagation — never simplify to
Ok(()) #[cfg(test)] mod tests— never remove test modules
Simplification Patterns
1. Iterator chains over manual loops
// ❌ Verbose
let mut result = Vec::new();
for line in input.lines() {
let trimmed = line.trim();
if !trimmed.is_empty() && trimmed.starts_with("error") {
result.push(trimmed.to_string());
}
}
// ✅ Idiomatic
let result: Vec<String> = input.lines()
.map(|l| l.trim())
.filter(|l| !l.is_empty() && l.starts_with("error"))
.map(str::to_string)
.collect();
2. String building
// ❌ Verbose push loop
let mut out = String::new();
for (i, line) in lines.iter().enumerate() {
out.push_str(line);
if i < lines.len() - 1 {
out.push('\n');
}
}
// ✅ join
let out = lines.join("\n");
3. Option/Result chaining
// ❌ Nested match
let result = match maybe_value {
Some(v) => match transform(v) {
Ok(r) => r,
Err(_) => default,
},
None => default,
};
// ✅ Chained
let result = maybe_value
.and_then(|v| transform(v).ok())
.unwrap_or(default);
4. Struct destructuring
// ❌ Repeated field access
fn process(args: &MyArgs) -> String {
format!("{} {}", args.command, args.subcommand)
}
// ✅ Destructure
fn process(&MyArgs { ref command, ref subcommand, .. }: &MyArgs) -> String {
format!("{} {}", command, subcommand)
}
5. Early returns over nesting
// ❌ Deeply nested
fn filter(input: &str) -> Option<String> {
if !input.is_empty() {
if let Some(line) = input.lines().next() {
if line.starts_with("error") {
return Some(line.to_string());
}
}
}
None
}
// ✅ Early return
fn filter(input: &str) -> Option<String> {
if input.is_empty() { return None; }
let line = input.lines().next()?;
if !line.starts_with("error") { return None; }
Some(line.to_string())
}
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.
- 1mo ago First seen · 179 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 1a089ec6334d
code-simplifier is a skill published in the GitHub repository rtk-ai/rtk (84,655 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 36 tokens to every session and 1,169 once invoked, about $0.0001 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.
Other skills, from other repositories
code-simplifier
Review RTK Rust code for idiomatic simplification. Detects over-engineering, unnecessary allocations, verbose patterns. Applies Rust idioms without changing behavior.
Codex-skill-rust
Guide for Rust development including code style, testing, building, and quality checks using cargo tools. Apply when working with Rust code, Cargo.toml, or running cargo commands.
clean-code-rust
Use when writing or reviewing Rust — deeper idioms (ownership/borrows, error handling with thiserror/anyhow, avoiding unwrap and Rc , iterator style, newtypes).
rust-crate-ci
Load before editing any Rust crate in this repo (currently runners/swarm-sandbox-runner). Covers the mandatory local validation gate, common rustfmt/clippy pitfalls, and Windows-specific Rust correctness patterns that CI enforces but are hard to catch locally without a Windows toolchain.
eval-skills
Audit a project or library of skills for metadata, trigger boundaries, workflow completion criteria, local resource closure, instruction economy, tool scope, effort, and routing evidence. Use before shipping skills, after importing a skill collection, or when a skill triggers too often or not at all.
audit-agents-skills
Audit Claude Code agents, skills, and commands for quality and production readiness. Use when evaluating skill quality, checking production readiness scores, or comparing agents against best-practice templates.