simplify

simplify is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from victoriacity/openakari. It costs 18 tokens per session (939 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

A skill for checking whether a plan, design, or implementation contains unnecessary complexity. It asks whether each component, dependency, or abstraction is actually needed for the stated goal.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to review plans, source directories, architectures, or implementations for needless components, dependencies, configuration, and abstractions.
Why use it?
It helps identify work that can be removed without preventing the project from succeeding. This is useful when a solution has grown more elaborate than its mission requires.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

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

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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

README.md
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Your own site
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Per session 18 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 939 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 $0.00018 $0.00939
Opus 5 $0.00009 $0.00469
Sonnet 5 $0.00004 $0.00188
Haiku 4.5 $0.00002 $0.00094

Measured 4d ago against content hash 631e9beb7cad, 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 4d 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/simplify/SKILL.md · 114 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 114 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

/simplify

Review a plan, implementation, or design for unnecessary complexity. The argument is a file path (plan document, README, or source directory) or a description of the artifact. Read it first.

When to use this vs alternatives

  • Use /simplify when the primary concern is whether something is over-engineered — too many components, abstractions, or dependencies for the stated mission.
  • Use /critique when you want to find correctness problems (misattributions, grounding failures, provenance gaps). Critique asks "is this wrong?"; simplify asks "is this necessary?"
  • Use /gravity when you suspect a pattern should be formalized (moved from manual to code/convention). Gravity adds structure; simplify removes it.

Core test

For every component, feature, abstraction, dependency, or configuration:

"If I removed this, would the stated mission fail?"

If the answer is no, it is a candidate for removal. The burden of proof is on inclusion, not exclusion.

Procedure

1. Identify the mission

Find the stated goal — the project's Mission/Done-when, the plan's objective, or the feature's purpose. If there is no stated mission, flag this as the first problem.

2. Inventory components

List every distinct component of the artifact:

  • For a plan: each step, tool, dependency, page, feature
  • For an implementation: each file, dependency, abstraction layer, configuration option
  • For a design: each entity, relationship, interface, constraint

3. Apply removal tests

For each component:

Must-have test

Does the mission fail without this? Be strict — "nice to have" is not "must have." Common false must-haves:

  • Error handling for impossible states
  • Configuration for values that never change
  • Abstractions over single implementations
  • Features the user didn't ask for
  • Documentation no one will read
  • Tests for trivial logic (i.e., tests that duplicate what the type system already guarantees — NOT tests for simple runtime behavior, which the /develop skill requires per its TDD rule)

Read the full file on GitHub · 114 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. 4d ago First seen · 114 lines · 18 tokens per session scan A 631e9beb7cad

Subscribe to this mod's changes

simplify is a skill published in the GitHub repository victoriacity/openakari (47 stars, last pushed 5mo ago), licensed MIT. It adds 18 tokens to every session and 939 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 2026-08-30.

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