dev-simplify SKILL.md skillA
dev-simplify from codeaholicguy/ai-devkit is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add codeaholicguy/ai-devkit/dev-simplify@git:20261023.fdbfb3aPins git:20261023.fdbfb3a in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- codeaholicguy/ai-devkit
- Path
skills/dev-simplify/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261023.fdbfb3a, committed Oct 23, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 23, 2026
- Size
- 4,907 bytes
- Repository stars
- 1,661
- License
- Apache-2.0
AI DevKit · Analyze and simplify existing implementations to reduce complexity, improve maintainability, and enhance scalability. Use when users ask to simplify code, reduce complexity, refactor for readability, clean up implementations, improve maintainability, reduce technical debt, or make code easier to understand.
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
# Simplify Implementation Assistant Reduce complexity with an analysis-first approach before changing code. ## Hard Rules - Do not modify code until the user approves a simplification plan. - Readability over brevity. Some duplication beats the wrong abstraction. - Prefer reusing an existing function over introducing a new one — but only if it fits cleanly. Do not force-fit a near-match. - Before improving code, ask whether the function, abstraction, dependency, or custom logic needs to exist at all. - Prefer platform and standard-library features over custom code or dependencies. Use already-installed dependencies when they cleanly solve the problem; do not add a dependency for logic that is only a few clear lines. - For breaking changes: modify in place only when all callers are in-repo and updated in the same change. For public/external APIs, add a new function and deprecate the old one (parallel change). - Delete or inline before adding: remove dead code, one-caller wrappers, redundant guards, stale tests, and unused configuration first. ## Workflow 1. Gather Context - Confirm targets, pain points, and constraints (compatibility, API stability, deadlines). …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add codeaholicguy/ai-devkit/dev-simplify@sha256:cb47ca2654856704The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261023.fdbfb3a, 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_ah4hk26e46o4r5bc)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Oct 23, 2026.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261023.fdbfb3a latest | 2026-10-23 | fdbfb3a | 4,907 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261023.08f1a74 | 2026-10-23 | 08f1a74 | 4,788 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 (4907 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
codeaholicguy/ai-devkit · 1,661 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-08 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ah4hk26e46o4r5bc GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=codeaholicguy/ai-devkit/dev-simplify GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/cb47ca2654856704894ae806010ce5fd9c34180a5fc749c3ceeea84c1e67317a
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