simplify SKILL.md skillA
simplify from ronaknnathani/relay is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ronaknnathani/relay/simplify@git:20261019.02f6f4fPins git:20261019.02f6f4f in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ronaknnathani/relay
- Path
skills/simplify/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 3
- Latest version
- git:20261019.02f6f4f, committed Oct 19, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 29, 2026
- Size
- 6,098 bytes
- Repository stars
- 43
- License
- MIT
Reduce complexity in recently changed code — cut needless abstraction, dead code, and duplication; improve names and structure — WITHOUT changing behavior. Quality only; it does not hunt for bugs (use review for that). Use after implementing a chunk of work, before review, or whenever a diff feels more complicated than the problem it solves. Triggers on "clean this up" / "tidy this" / "refactor this" when code already exists; for an underspecified goal with no code yet, use `clarify`.
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 Make a change simpler and clearer without changing what it does. The bar: readable, explicit code over clever, compact code — would a senior engineer call this overcomplicated? Scope is the **recently changed code** — the working diff (e.g. `git diff` against the branch point) unless the caller names files. This is quality-only: it does not hunt for bugs (that's `review`). ## Step 0 — the invariant **Preserve functionality. Never change what the code does, only how it does it.** Every original feature, output, and behavior stays intact. If a simplification would alter behavior, it is a `review` or implementation concern, not a simplification — stop and surface it. ## Scan — three buckets Look at the changed code for: - **Structural** — nesting depth ≥ 3, functions longer than ~50 lines, nested ternaries, boolean-flag parameters that select behavior, indirection that only forwards a call. - **Naming** — `data`/`result`/`temp`/`foo`, names that mislead, names that imply something broader or different than the thing actually is. - **Redundancy** — duplicated logic, dead/unreachable code, unused parameters/variables/fields, …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ronaknnathani/relay/simplify@sha256:1f252c306954bf71The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261019.02f6f4f, 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_nemqa5fbjxlj5trj)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 3 versions of this file, between Jun 29, 2026 and Oct 19, 2026, about one every 56 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261019.02f6f4f latest | 2026-10-19 | 02f6f4f | 6,098 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260629.7380310 | 2026-06-29 | 7380310 | 5,588 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260629.63b0fec | 2026-06-29 | 63b0fec | 5,442 B | A | view |
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 (6098 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
ronaknnathani/relay · 43 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-06 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_nemqa5fbjxlj5trj GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ronaknnathani/relay/simplify GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/1f252c306954bf718eabec167e82bcf0df15d53b306360ad74282be89977ee27
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.
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