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SKILL.md skill

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Simplify code that works — remove speculative abstraction, dead flexibility, and needless indirection while keeping behaviour identical and verified. Use after a feature lands ('now simplify it'), when AI-generated code arrives over-engineered, when a file has grown hard to follow, or as the cleanup pass before review. Produces a smaller, flatter version with identical behaviour, plus a ledger of what was removed and why it was safe. For finding bugs use code-review-checklist / ai-code-review…

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What the file says

# Code Simplification Skill

Code accretes defensive complexity: abstractions for futures that never came, options nobody passes, indirection that once had a reason. AI-generated code arrives pre-accreted — interfaces with one implementer, config objects with nine unused knobs. Simplification is its own pass with its own rule: **behaviour identical, verified; complexity removed, listed.**

## What This Skill Produces

- The simplified code — smaller, flatter, same behaviour
- A **removal ledger**: each simplification, why it was safe, and what future it forecloses (honestly)
- Verification evidence that behaviour held

## Required Inputs

Ask for these if not provided:
- **The code** — what works today and should keep working
- **The pressure** — what made it feel complex: onboarding, a bug, a review comment
- **What must not change** — the public API, behaviour, or performance envelope
- **Test coverage** — whether there are tests to prove the simplification is safe

## What to Hunt (in order of payoff)
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How to install

mdr add mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/code-simplification@sha256:e34504cd97d7f7fe

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API

GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_qa7re636k46s3qax
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills/code-simplification
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/e34504cd97d7f7fea103d79c8bf222a9fcd72a3185d0c3b4afc333eb5e43a773

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