code-simplification is agent-read markdown (skill) from iuliandita/skills: Review code for dead code, duplication, overengineering, invented APIs, and weak tests. Report safe reductions; no edits..
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# Code Simplification
Review code for unnecessary complexity, ungrounded implementation choices, and safe reductions. Preserve behavior and report evidence in maintainability or reduction mode.
1. **Maintainability**: over-abstraction, generic naming, noisy comments, invented APIs or configuration, stale idioms, dependency creep, and weak tests.
2. **Safe reduction**: dead or superseded code, orphan files, exact clones, redundant wrappers, inert defensive scaffolding, and comment walls.
Smaller code is not automatically better. A finding needs a concrete maintenance or correctness cost, an invariant, and evidence that the proposed change preserves contracts.
## When to use
- Review code or a PR for unnecessary complexity, AI-shaped code, grounded API use, and useful tests.
- Find behavior-preserving reductions before a cleanup change.
- Check a removal or refactor diff for lost behavior, fallbacks, or reachable entry points.
## When NOT to use
- Find logic bugs, races, or regressions: use **code-review**.
- Find vulnerabilities or secrets: use **security-audit**.
- Rewrite prose for voice: use **anti-ai-prose**.
- Run a repository-wide multi-lens audit: use **repo-audit**.
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Source
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iuliandita/skills · 7 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-24 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_5fl7sx6f3yewnc7b
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=iuliandita/skills/code-simplification
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/648831b264e240ffa76bbafd6143b74f030765d37ffb06fb9c634eb5396c6aeb
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