simplify SKILL.md skillA
simplify from genai-io/san is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add genai-io/san/simplify@git:20260717.120e9bbPins git:20260717.120e9bb in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- genai-io/san
- Path
.san/personas/software-engineer/skills/simplify/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260717.120e9bb, committed Jul 17, 2026
- Size
- 2,701 bytes
- Repository stars
- 147
- License
- Apache-2.0
Review changed code for reuse, quality, and efficiency, then clean up what you find — duplicated logic that could reuse an existing helper, hacky or redundant patterns, needless work on hot paths. Quality cleanup only: not bugs (that's code-review) and not behavior-preserving restructuring on request (that's refactor). Use when the user says "simplify", "clean this up", "is there a simpler way", or "tidy the diff".
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: quality cleanup on the changed code Review the changed code for cleanups it would benefit from, then apply them. This is the **quality** pass — reuse, hacky patterns, wasted work. It is not the bug pass (`code-review`) and not a requested restructuring (`refactor`); stay in its lane and don't report correctness bugs or propose structural rewrites here. ## Phase 1: Identify changes Run `git diff` (or `git diff HEAD` when changes are staged). With no git changes, review the most recently modified files the user named or that you edited earlier in this conversation. ## Phase 2: Review across three lenses (in parallel) Use the Agent tool to launch three reviewers concurrently in one message (foreground). Give each the full diff. Each returns a short list of concrete, located findings. - **Reuse.** New code that duplicates an existing helper or utility; hand-rolled logic (string munging, path handling, env checks, type guards) that the codebase already has a function for. Point to the existing one to use instead. - **Quality.** Redundant state that could be derived; parameter sprawl instead of …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add genai-io/san/simplify@sha256:419f5c41160cc09cThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260717.120e9bb, 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_jobsh725kwpoafq4)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 17, 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 (2701 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
genai-io/san · 147 stars · license Apache-2.0 · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_jobsh725kwpoafq4 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=genai-io/san/simplify GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/419f5c41160cc09ccc6c818bf325c7d27f57547d213a258cb5f6bf55b117a2e5
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.