simplicity-review SKILL.md skillA
simplicity-review from naimkatiman/continuous-improvement is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add naimkatiman/continuous-improvement/simplicity-review@git:20260710.61572d4Pins git:20260710.61572d4 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- naimkatiman/continuous-improvement
- Path
plugins/continuous-improvement/skills/simplicity-review/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260710.61572d4, committed Jul 10, 2026
- Size
- 4,712 bytes
- Repository stars
- 9
- License
- MIT
Enforces Law 4 (Verify Before Reporting) of the 7 Laws of AI Agent Discipline. Reviews the current diff for over-engineering (code that could reuse an existing file, a stdlib or native feature, or fewer lines) and reports trim findings without touching code, so 'it works' is never mistaken for 'it is the minimum that works'.
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
# Simplicity Review — Flag the Over-Build Before It Ships Law 4 says verify before reporting. "It compiles and the test passes" is a claim about correctness, not about whether the change is the minimum that works. This skill runs a diff-scoped review with one question: could this have been smaller? It reads the change like the laziest senior dev in the room, walks a fixed reuse ladder, and reports what to trim. It never edits code. The best code is the code you never wrote. ## When to Activate - After writing a feature or fix, before opening a PR, when the diff feels larger than the task warranted. - When you reached for a new file, a new dependency, or a wrapper component and a native or existing option might already cover it. - As a routed step from `proceed-with-the-recommendation` at the "Refactor / dead code cleanup" line, as the repo-owned alternative to the built-in `simplify`. - Before a release cut, over the diff since the last tag, as a last pass on accreted complexity. ## The Ladder Read each added or changed block and stop at the first rung that holds: ``` 1. Does this need to exist? -> skip it (YAGNI) 2. Already in this codebase? -> reuse it …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add naimkatiman/continuous-improvement/simplicity-review@sha256:7c51ab000575cd86The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260710.61572d4, 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 Jul 10, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
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Source
naimkatiman/continuous-improvement · 9 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ldbmlvbcg2syqxto GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=naimkatiman/continuous-improvement/simplicity-review GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/7c51ab000575cd86d44e02d9422839faff62402c8502c9aed5558fa93006b5dc
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