simplify SKILL.md skillA
simplify from alexschlessinger/polly is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add alexschlessinger/polly/simplify@git:20260918.5961548Pins git:20260918.5961548 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- alexschlessinger/polly
- Path
skills/builtin/simplify/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260918.5961548, committed Sep 18, 2026
- Size
- 6,141 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Clean up recently changed code without changing its behavior — parallel read-only reviewers look for missed reuse, needless complexity, wasted work, and fixes at the wrong depth, then you apply what survives. Quality only, not a bug hunt. Use when the user asks to simplify, tidy, or clean up their changes, a diff, a branch, or specific files.
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
Make the changed code smaller, clearer, and cheaper while keeping what it does.
This is not a correctness review: do not go looking for bugs, and do not
"fix" behavior that looks odd but may be intended. If you trip over a real
bug, mention it in the summary and leave it alone.
## 1. Pin down the change
Work from a concrete diff, never from memory of the conversation.
- If the user named files, a commit, a range, or a branch, review exactly that.
- Otherwise, in a Git repository: take `git diff HEAD` (staged plus unstaged).
If that is empty, take the branch against its upstream
(`git diff @{upstream}...HEAD`), falling back to the default branch
(`git diff main...HEAD` or `master...HEAD`), then to `git diff HEAD~1`.
- Outside Git, ask which files to review.
Include untracked files the user clearly means (`git status --short` lists
them). If the diff is empty, say so and stop. If it is very large (thousands of
lines, dozens of files), tell the user and offer to narrow it before spending
the fan-out.
Also note any project instruction files (`AGENTS.md`, `CLAUDE.md`, and
similar at the root or in directories above changed files). Reviewers should
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add alexschlessinger/polly/simplify@sha256:fdef69a97ac4d80eThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260918.5961548, 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_gpp3li75xsgqhx3f)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Sep 18, 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 (6141 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
alexschlessinger/polly · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-05 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_gpp3li75xsgqhx3f GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=alexschlessinger/polly/simplify GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/fdef69a97ac4d80e9deda64e0f28120f43d8d9c200f6851c0d1ed5af64f666d8
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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