Borrowing it
Nothing to install: this file belongs to WolframResearch/AgentTools. 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/WolframResearch/AgentTools/main/.claude/skills/simplify-spec/SKILL.mdgit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/WolframResearch/AgentToolsWrote 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.
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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 | $0.00084 | $0.00837 |
| Opus 5.5 | $0.00034 | $0.00335 |
| Sonnet 5.5 | $0.00017 | $0.00167 |
| Haiku 4.5 | $0.00008 | $0.00084 |
Grade A, and why
simplify-spec 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 — 71 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.
Simplify a Design Specification
Rewrite a design specification to focus on user-facing behavior, removing or condensing internal implementation details. The goal is a spec that clearly communicates what the feature does and how users interact with it, without prescribing how it's built internally.
Spec to simplify: $ARGUMENTS
If no specific spec is given, ask the user which spec in Specs/ they'd like simplified.
Process
1. Read the Spec
Read the full spec file from Specs/. Identify every section and classify it:
- User-facing: Things a user of the paclet would see or interact with (function signatures, options, usage examples, option tables with types/defaults/descriptions, backward compatibility notes, future plans)
- Internal: Things only a developer implementing the feature would need (file modification lists, internal function signatures, internal symbol declarations, serialization details, parsing logic, private API code, environment variable plumbing, verification/test checklists)
2. Understand the Feature
Before rewriting, read the relevant source files to understand what the feature actually does. This is important because the spec may describe planned behavior that differs from what was implemented, or use terminology that's clearer in context.
Use the Explore agent or read files directly to understand:
- How users interact with the feature (the public API)
- What the actual defaults and option values are
- Which parts of the spec correspond to internal plumbing vs user-visible behavior
3. Rewrite the Spec
Apply these guidelines:
Remove entirely:
- File modification tables ("Files Modified")
- Internal symbol declarations (e.g., "Add to CommonSymbols.wl")
- Internal function implementations (e.g., full
toolOptionValuecode withEnclose/ConfirmBy) - Serialization/storage mechanism details (e.g., JSON format, environment variable names, parsing logic)
- Verification/test step checklists
- "Goals" sections that describe internal engineering goals rather than user value
- Strikethrough notes about removed plans (e.g., "
Deprecate the existing...(removed — ...)")
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 · 71 lines · 84 tokens per session scan A 8d85fe43ba62
simplify-spec is a skill published in the GitHub repository WolframResearch/AgentTools (96 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 84 tokens to every session and 837 once invoked, about $0.0003 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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