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code-simplifier is a skill for Claude Code from rtk-ai/rtk. It costs 36 tokens per session (1,169 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A skill for reviewing Rust code and simplifying unnecessarily complicated patterns without changing behavior. Rust is a programming language used here for the RTK project.

In plain words
What is it for?
Replacing manual loops with idiomatic iterator code, simplifying string construction and option handling, and reviewing RTK Rust code under its stated constraints.
Why use it?
It finds verbose code, needless allocations, and over-engineering while preserving project-specific behavior and required safety checks.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

This is rtk-ai/rtk's own configuration. It tells Claude Code how to work on rtk itself, so it is not a mod to install elsewhere. Copy it as a starting point and replace the rules that are about this project. Everything rtk configures →

About the project

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.

rtk-ai/rtk · 84,655 stars · on GitHub · rtk-ai.app

Reuse

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.

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Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/rtk-ai/rtk

Made for: Claude Code.

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Per session 36 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,169 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 15 Sept 2026
  • Snyk pass 15 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 $0.00036 $0.01169
Opus 5.5 $0.00014 $0.00468
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00007 $0.00234
Haiku 4.5 $0.00004 $0.00117

Measured 1mo ago against content hash 1a089ec6334d, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

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.

.claude/skills/code-simplifier/SKILL.md · 179 lines

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)

  • LazyLock regex — 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())
}

Read the full file on GitHub · 179 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 · 179 lines · 36 tokens per session scan A 1a089ec6334d

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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.

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