keep-it-simple SKILL.md skillA
keep-it-simple from swyxio/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add swyxio/skills/keep-it-simple@git:20260924.dbe728dPins git:20260924.dbe728d in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- swyxio/skills
- Path
keep-it-simple/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260924.dbe728d, committed Sep 24, 2026
- Size
- 3,607 bytes
- Repository stars
- 194
- License
- MIT
Review a diff, design, execution path, or subsystem for unnecessary complexity and propose concrete simplifications. Use during code review or independently when the user is concerned about overengineering, excessive coordination, or code that has become hard to understand or operate.
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
# Keep It Simple Find the simplest implementation that meets the actual requirements. Ask what concrete requirement justifies each additional mechanism. Simplicity includes runtime behavior and operational burden, not just source length. ## Review the requested surface Establish the intended behavior, explicit constraints, and demonstrated failure modes. Distinguish these from hypothetical future needs and conventions inherited from templates or other skills. Inspect the relevant callers and execution path; do not turn a focused review into a repository cleanup. Trace what a reader must understand and what the system must execute. Look for: - duplicate state, validation, projections, or sources of truth; - pass-through layers, speculative interfaces, and configuration with no real use; - repeated remote calls, per-item bookkeeping, and unnecessarily small work units; - independent operations serialized without a correctness reason; - optional work coupled to user-visible completion or the critical path; - fallback, compatibility, and recovery machinery without a named consumer or demonstrated failure it addresses. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add swyxio/skills/keep-it-simple@sha256:6af400399b3ceed3The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260924.dbe728d, 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_7tvtvper2tbkmhqc)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 24, 2026.
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 (3607 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
swyxio/skills · 194 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-03 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_7tvtvper2tbkmhqc GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=swyxio/skills/keep-it-simple GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/6af400399b3ceed33e35c7415736de42ea85d3f80e03b5286adb9ebccc787a31
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.