simplify SKILL.md skillA
simplify from haacked/dotfiles is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add haacked/dotfiles/simplify@git:20260827.f7bfa75Pins git:20260827.f7bfa75 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- haacked/dotfiles
- Path
ai/codex/skills/simplify/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260827.f7bfa75, committed Aug 27, 2026
- Size
- 1,622 bytes
- Repository stars
- 135
- License
- none declared
Simplify recently changed code for clarity, consistency, and maintainability while preserving behavior. Use after implementation or when asked to simplify or refactor code without changing what it does.
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 Improve recently changed code without changing its observable behavior. ## Scope Use the files or code the user names. Otherwise, inspect the working tree and branch diff and focus on code changed for the current task. Preserve unrelated user changes and avoid broad cleanup outside that scope. If there is no changed code and the user did not name a target, ask what code to simplify. ## Review and edit Read the applicable repository instructions and nearby code before editing. Apply changes that materially improve clarity, consistency, or maintainability, including: - Reduce unnecessary nesting, indirection, duplication, and special cases. - Remove abstractions or helpers that do not earn their complexity. - Replace names and control flow that obscure what the code does. Prefer explicit, readable code over compressed expressions. Do not optimize for fewer lines, introduce speculative abstractions, expand the task, or change public behavior. Apply safe improvements directly. Leave ambiguous or behavior-changing opportunities untouched and report them to the user. ## Verify …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add haacked/dotfiles/simplify@sha256:c5fab6506a2ba5deThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260827.f7bfa75, 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_fkhax2vb6ibtaldg)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Aug 27, 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 (1622 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
haacked/dotfiles · 135 stars · license none declared · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_fkhax2vb6ibtaldg GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=haacked/dotfiles/simplify GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/c5fab6506a2ba5de94a3d3d0bf5c1b85d7fdc32c30129a26a4322d1894258c7a
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.
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