elegant-code is agent-read markdown (skill) from athola/claude-night-market: Guide minimal code via a decision ladder with full safety, edge, and negative-case coverage. Use when adding code, choosing a dependency, or auditing a diff..
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What the file says
# Elegant Code
> Write the minimal, elegant code that fully solves the problem:
> its performance, its edge cases, and its failure cases. Minimal
> is not fewest lines. It is no incidental complexity, with
> nothing essential omitted.
## What this skill is (and is not)
This skill codifies a discipline that strong models already
exhibit *some* of the time. Its value is not teaching a missing
capability. Its value is three things:
1. A shared **vocabulary** (the rungs, the floor) that review
skills can point at, so "you skipped rung 2" is a concrete,
auditable note.
2. **Consistency**: the ladder is applied every time, not just
when the model happens to think of it.
3. A **guard**: the negligence floor below is never traded away
for brevity.
It is the generative counterpart to the review-side contract in
`leyline:additive-bias-defense`.
## When To Use
- Before adding a function, file, class, abstraction, or
dependency.
- When choosing between reuse and writing new code.
- When auditing a diff for lines that can be deleted.
## When NOT To Use
- Throwaway scripts or one-time migrations where review cost is
near zero.
…
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