simplify SKILL.md skillA
simplify from ariaxhan/kernel-claude is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ariaxhan/kernel-claude/simplify@git:20260910.20bff72Pins git:20260910.20bff72 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ariaxhan/kernel-claude
- Path
skills/simplify/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 4
- Latest version
- git:20260910.20bff72, committed Sep 10, 2026
- First version recorded
- Aug 27, 2026
- Size
- 12,588 bytes
- Repository stars
- 14
- License
- MIT
Simplify code, plans and systems without losing required outcomes; delete machinery that earns nothing; for code, AST-measured complexity with regression gates. Triggers: simplify, refactor, complexity, overengineered, dead code, useless guard.
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
<skill id="simplify"> <purpose> Simplification makes the road easier; it does not change the destination. Preserve every required outcome, feature, behavior, and explicit constraint. Simplify only how they are delivered: fewer branches, concepts, components, dependencies, states, handoffs, and duplicated mechanisms. For code, this skill forces a measured per-function number, records its movement, and installs the same check in the project's normal verification. Prose about "cleaner code" is not accepted. Adapted from saurabhkumar8112/cyclomatic-complexity-skill (Apache-2.0). The refactoring model never signs its own result; a verifier re-measures and runs the armed project gate. </purpose> <on_start> agentdb recall "simplify complexity <files/symbols>" --global </on_start> <mode> Pick one at the top of the run and say which: - `code` — source changes. Full measure + gate path below. - `system` — plans, roadmaps, backlogs, docs, pipelines, process. Preservation contract and deletion doctrine apply; the complexity table does not. Never emit `Reduced: 0 · regressed: 0` for work with no functions in it; use the system report block. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ariaxhan/kernel-claude/simplify@sha256:111c56bdd649b1ebThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260910.20bff72, 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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Versions
The registry has recorded 4 versions of this file, between Aug 27, 2026 and Sep 10, 2026, about one every 5 days.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20260910.20bff72 latest | 2026-09-10 | 20bff72 | 12,588 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260904.0e87640 | 2026-09-04 | 0e87640 | 8,624 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260901.24cf67d | 2026-09-01 | 24cf67d | 6,522 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260827.cb84dd4 | 2026-08-27 | cb84dd4 | 4,347 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 (12588 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
ariaxhan/kernel-claude · 14 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-01 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_taamhsgepfnpfe2f GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ariaxhan/kernel-claude/simplify GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/111c56bdd649b1eb15594a3299a34a3d53d65c1229fa2ed70bb1ce345546467f
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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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