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- Audit grade
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- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- pantheon-org/tekhne
- Path
skills/software-engineering/simplicity-principles/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20260710.a38941a, committed Jul 10, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jul 10, 2026
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- Repository stars
- 10
- License
- MIT
Use when designing solutions, adding features, or refactoring by applying KISS, YAGNI, and Principle of Least Astonishment to write simple, predictable code.
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 Principles
Write code that is simple, necessary, and unsurprising.
## Three Core Principles
### 1. KISS - Keep It Simple, Stupid
### Simple solutions are better than clever ones
### What Simple Means
- Readable by developers of varying skill levels
- Fewer moving parts and abstractions
- Direct and obvious implementation
- Easy to debug and test
- Minimal cognitive load
### Elixir Examples
```elixir
# COMPLEX - Over-engineered
defmodule PaymentCalculator do
use GenServer
def start_link(_), do: GenServer.start_link(__MODULE__, %{}, name: __MODULE__)
def calculate(items), do: GenServer.call(__MODULE__, {:calculate, items})
def handle_call({:calculate, items}, _from, state) do
result = Enum.reduce(items, Money.new(:USD, 0), &Money.add(&2, &1.price))
{:reply, result, state}
end
end
# SIMPLE - Just a function
defmodule PaymentCalculator do
def calculate(items) do
Enum.reduce(items, Money.new(:USD, 0), &Money.add(&2, &1.price))
end
end
# Use GenServer only when you need state/concurrency
```
```elixir
# COMPLEX - Unnecessary abstraction
defmodule UserQuery do
defmacro by_status(status) do
quote do
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How to install
mdr add pantheon-org/tekhne/simplicity-principles@sha256:64fd79a648d36cffThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260710.a38941a, 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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The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Jul 10, 2026.
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| git:20260710.a38941a latest | 2026-07-10 | a38941a | 11,938 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260710.0d5e4cf | 2026-07-10 | 0d5e4cf | 10,967 B | A | view |
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Source
pantheon-org/tekhne · 10 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-21 · branch main
API
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