ia-simplifying-code SKILL.md skillA
ia-simplifying-code from iliaal/whetstone is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add iliaal/whetstone/ia-simplifying-code@git:20261031.92971afPins git:20261031.92971af in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- iliaal/whetstone
- Path
plugins/whetstone/skills/ia-simplifying-code/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 13
- Latest version
- git:20261031.4a248e0, committed Oct 31, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 20, 2026
- Size
- 9,155 bytes
- Repository stars
- 35
- License
- MIT
Simplifies, polishes, and declutters code without changing behavior. Use when asked to simplify, clean up, refactor, declutter, remove dead code or AI slop, or improve readability, including analysis-only simplification reports and code pasted inline.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Simplifying Code ## Working rules - Preserve behavior, interfaces, side effects, and domain intent; prove any unshipped-shape exception has no consumers outside scope. - Before removing a guard for an external hazard, reproduce its precondition and show the hazard is handled; otherwise retain it. - Verify standard-library substitutions on empty, null, no-match, ordering, and zero-value cases. - For analysis-only requests, identify targets and report proposed simplifications without editing code. ## Principles | Principle | Rule | |-----------|------| | **Preserve behavior** | Output must do exactly what the input did, with no silent feature additions or removals. Specifically preserve: async/sync boundaries (do not convert sync to async or reverse), error propagation paths (do not alter strategy), logging/telemetry/guards/retries that encode operational intent, and domain-specific steps (do not collapse into generic helpers that hide intent). One carve-out: a shape that existed only in an earlier iteration of the current unshipped scope is not protected behavior. Verify it has no deployed, persisted, public, external, dependent-branch, or in-repo caller outside the resolved… …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add iliaal/whetstone/ia-simplifying-code@sha256:4e5816e219cbb353The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261031.92971af, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_4fj6iiosawpmlx3a)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 13 versions of this file, between Jun 20, 2026 and Oct 31, 2026, about one every 11 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261031.4a248e0 latest | 2026-10-31 | 4a248e0 | 9,155 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261031.92971af | 2026-10-31 | 92971af | 9,026 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261011.2911a26 | 2026-10-11 | 2911a26 | 9,001 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261003.eaa3dc6 | 2026-10-03 | eaa3dc6 | 8,201 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260926.c89983b | 2026-09-26 | c89983b | 7,728 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260923.1fe6908 | 2026-09-23 | 1fe6908 | 7,666 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260917.e9d876a | 2026-09-17 | e9d876a | 7,694 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260913.9fa1f0d | 2026-09-13 | 9fa1f0d | 7,699 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260907.228ec83 | 2026-09-07 | 228ec83 | 7,494 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260906.35b18c4 | 2026-09-06 | 35b18c4 | 12,263 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260804.c122835 | 2026-08-04 | c122835 | 11,927 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260718.af8b79c | 2026-07-18 | af8b79c | 9,951 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260620.0e3af04 | 2026-06-20 | 0e3af04 | 8,967 B | A | view |
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (9155 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
iliaal/whetstone · 35 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-04 · branch master
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_4fj6iiosawpmlx3a GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=iliaal/whetstone/ia-simplifying-code GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/4e5816e219cbb353f3cb3c0948786761086d7fc975cd0d787685ea49ab824f71
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