complexity-rework SKILL.md skillA
complexity-rework from ovich/swarmstorm is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ovich/swarmstorm/complexity-rework@git:20261007.75cb045Pins git:20261007.75cb045 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ovich/swarmstorm
- Path
skills/architecture/complexity-rework/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20261007.75cb045, committed Oct 7, 2026
- Size
- 3,992 bytes
- Repository stars
- 13
- License
- MIT
Use when code is hard to follow and is to be audited or reworked: long if/else or switch chains, cascades of type checks or parse attempts, kind fields compared to strings, flag parameters, deep nesting, a function hard to read. Also for complexity guardrails, or one long conditional function pasted. Produces a ranked audit of families, one family reworked behind characterization tests, or the guardrails.
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
# Complexity rework **Branching is the symptom; the cause is usually late typing.** Data enters typed by a schema and is handled as a bag, so every consumer rediscovers its shape by trying parsers and comparing strings. Look for that before splitting a function, and look for a domain rule before touching anything: ifs over values are the domain, and "reviewed, left alone" is a result. ## The phases One artefact each, and a stop. Read only the reference of the phase being run. | Phase | Produces | Stops for | Read | |---|---|---|---| | 1 Audit | the report: families ranked, a shape each, what each must preserve | the person's choice of families and their order | `references/audit.md`, and `references/measure.md` for the numbers | | 2 Characterize | one commit of tests pinning today's outputs, green on the old code | an output that looks wrong | `references/characterize.md` | | 3 Rework | one family, commit by commit, the tests unchanged | any diff in a pinned output | `references/rework.md` | | 4 Guard | a complexity limit, exhaustiveness, a check for the pattern, a convention proposed | the person's yes on the convention | `references/guard.md` | …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ovich/swarmstorm/complexity-rework@sha256:23ddb4935879d76cThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261007.75cb045, 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.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Oct 7, 2026.
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Source
ovich/swarmstorm · 13 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-31 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_byvx5ix6hqnukniq GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ovich/swarmstorm/complexity-rework GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/23ddb4935879d76c4e680522f671985a341c63e99749036895c3b53e6cf21f06
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