simplify

simplify is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from sd0xdev/sd0x-harness. It costs 16 tokens per session (380 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A code-cleanup tool that removes duplication and simplifies complicated code while keeping its behavior unchanged.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it after development to remove dead code, extract repeated logic, reduce deep nesting, and check for refactoring risks.
Why use it?
It helps make existing code easier to read and maintain without changing what the software does.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Part of the sd0x-dev-flow plugin — 98 skills, 16 agents, 5 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/sd0xdev/sd0x-harness/simplify
Any agent
npx skills add sd0xdev/sd0x-harness --skill simplify
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/sd0xdev/sd0x-harness

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

Or install sd0x-dev-flow, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 98 skills, 16 agents, 5 hooks.

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README.md
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Per session 16 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 380 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 $0.00016 $0.00380
Opus 5 $0.00008 $0.00190
Sonnet 5 $0.00003 $0.00076
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00038

Measured yesterday against content hash 9562bed1330a, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-08-30, 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 yesterday.

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/SKILL.md · 76 lines

What it actually says

Code Simplification

Trigger

  • Keywords: simplify, clean up code, remove duplication, simplify code

When NOT to Use

  • New feature development (use /feature-dev)
  • Document refactoring (use /doc-refactor)
  • Full multi-target refactoring (use /refactor)

Agent Dispatch

Primary: Code Simplification

Agent({
  description: "Simplify code, eliminate duplication, preserve behavior",
  subagent_type: "code-simplifier",
  prompt: `Simplify the code at: $ARGUMENTS
Follow the task steps and constraints defined in this skill.`
})

Secondary: Refactoring Risk Review

After simplification, dispatch risk assessment:

Agent({
  description: "Review refactoring risk and verify behavior preservation",
  subagent_type: "refactor-reviewer",
  prompt: `Review the refactoring changes just applied.
Check behavior preservation, dependency impact, test coverage, and rollback risk.`
})

Task

For $ARGUMENTS:

  1. Run tests first (establish baseline)
  2. Refactor
    • Dead code removal
    • Extract duplicates (3+ repeats)
    • Simplify nesting (> 3 levels)
  3. Run tests again (confirm nothing broken)

Output

## Refactoring Summary

- [file:line] <change>

## Test Results

✅/❌

## Next Steps

- <suggestions>

Constraints

  • ❌ Do not change business logic
  • ❌ Do not add new features
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. yesterday First seen · 76 lines · 16 tokens per session scan A 9562bed1330a

Subscribe to this mod's changes

simplify is a skill published in the GitHub repository sd0xdev/sd0x-harness (188 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 16 tokens to every session and 380 once invoked, about $0.0001 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 2026-09-03.

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