kiss-dry-yagni

kiss-dry-yagni is a skill for Claude Code from TheBeardedBearSAS/claude-craft. It costs 0 tokens per session (151 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

Code-quality guidance based on KISS, DRY, and YAGNI: keep code simple, avoid duplicated logic, and do not build unneeded features.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to simplify methods, choose when to create abstractions, prefer early returns and composition, and review code structure.
Why use it?
It helps reduce complexity, repeated code, deep nesting, and maintenance work during reviews or refactoring.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: installed under .claude/.

Part of the claude-craft plugin — 56 skills, 94 commands, 47 agents, 5 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it to simplify methods, choose when to create abstractions, prefer early returns and composition, and review code structure.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/thebeardedbearsas/claude-craft/kiss-dry-yagni
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 TheBeardedBearSAS/claude-craft --skill kiss-dry-yagni
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/TheBeardedBearSAS/claude-craft

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install claude-craft, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 56 skills, 94 commands, 47 agents, 5 hooks.

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Per session 0 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 151 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
  • 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 $0.00000 $0.00151
Opus 5 $0.00000 $0.00076
Sonnet 5 $0.00000 $0.00030
Haiku 4.5 $0.00000 $0.00015

Measured 8d ago against content hash fb2e86418b91, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-12, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

kiss-dry-yagni 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 8d 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/kiss-dry-yagni/SKILL.md · 20 lines

What it actually says

Principes KISS, DRY, YAGNI

This skill provides simplicity and code quality guidelines.

See @REFERENCE.md for detailed documentation.

Quick Reference

  • KISS: Methods < 20 lines, complexity < 10, indent < 3 levels
  • DRY: Abstract after 3 occurrences, single source of truth
  • YAGNI: Only build what's explicitly required NOW
  • Early returns: Prefer guard clauses over nested else
  • Composition: Prefer over inheritance
Files

What ships with it

1 file beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. 8d ago First seen · 20 lines · 0 tokens per session scan A fb2e86418b91

Subscribe to this mod's changes

kiss-dry-yagni is a skill published in the GitHub repository TheBeardedBearSAS/claude-craft (105 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It costs nothing until one of its globs matches a file; then it loads 151 tokens. 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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