ahgraber/skills · skills/simplify/SKILL.md

simplify skillA

simplify is agent-read markdown (skill) from ahgraber/skills: Use to cut slop out of working code: duplication, dead code, needless indirection, comment noise, defensive padding. Point it at the current changes, a file, a directory, or the whole repo. Triggers: 'simplify this', 'clean this up', 'de-slop this code', 'strip the cruft', 'tighten this diff', 'this code is bloated', 'audit this for slop'. Not for judging correctness or merge readiness (use code-review), and not for structural change that needs a plan and approval (use refactor)..

Indexed from public GitHub and served as immutable, content-addressed versions. Install it pinned to an exact SHA-256 with the mdr CLI, and every file is verified against the hash recorded here before it reaches your agent. The deterministic audit below grades the latest version, and the same file always earns the same grade.

How to install

Latest version
mdr add ahgraber/skills/simplify@git:20260904.70c249b
Exact content
mdr add ahgraber/skills/simplify@sha256:2bec2e4f5de109ee

Pin to a label to follow the author's releases, or to a sha256 to freeze the exact bytes forever. Either way the resolved hash is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install reproduces it on any machine.

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Versions

versioncommittedcommitsizeaudit
git:20260904.70c249b latest2026-09-04 70c249b 16,849 BA view · diff
git:20260823.b50461c2026-08-23 b50461c 16,423 BA view · diff
git:20260819.209d97b2026-08-19 209d97b 15,377 BA view · diff
git:20260816.29056882026-08-16 2905688 15,173 BA view · diff
git:20260808.eb5c83b2026-08-08 eb5c83b 14,709 BA view

Audit of the latest version

A  17 of 17 checks passed. Deterministic, no model, same answer every run.
  • pass: Frontmatter block present
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a name
  • pass: Frontmatter declares a description
  • pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (16849 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

GitHub

ahgraber/skills · 5 stars · license CC0-1.0 · pushed 2026-09-10 · branch main

API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_lfdwkiprlucb3qmo
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ahgraber/skills/simplify
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/2bec2e4f5de109ee04832bcf2138de54445f98abd3f0ad781c5cde45c75d4dce

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