simplify-codebase SKILL.md skillA
simplify-codebase from tt-a1i/archify is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add tt-a1i/archify/simplify-codebase@git:20261009.7ef7c0cPins git:20261009.7ef7c0c in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- tt-a1i/archify
- Path
.agents/skills/simplify-codebase/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 2
- Latest version
- git:20261009.7ef7c0c, committed Oct 9, 2026
- First version recorded
- Oct 9, 2026
- Size
- 6,935 bytes
- Repository stars
- 85,866
- License
- MIT
Simplification audit or authorized codebase simplification whose stated objective is to remove accidental complexity. Use for evidence-backed deletion or consolidation of dead code, duplicate state, redundant APIs or layers, ownerless abstractions, obsolete compatibility or design records, and over-engineering in any language; also use for 代码简化 or 熵回收. Do not use for general code review, onboarding, style-only refactoring, or performance tuning.
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 Codebase Reduce the number of concepts and obligations a codebase must keep coherent. Line-count reduction is supporting evidence, not the objective. A successful run may conclude that the inspected surface is already justified. ## Select mode and scope First choose the authority mode: - **Survey** for simplification audit, investigation, or candidate-finding requests. Remain read-only and return ranked evidence. - **Change** for explicit simplify, remove, consolidate, refactor, or repository-documentation edit requests. Prove each cut, implement it within the authorized scope, and validate the surviving contract. Then choose the coverage scope: - **Focused** when the user names a subsystem, symbol, state machine, dependency, or suspected duplication. Cover that boundary thoroughly before expanding outward. - **Broad** when the request spans the repository or asks for multiple candidates. Partition the system and account for every in-scope domain. Deleting a reachable capability, supported interface, stored representation, or compatibility path is a product decision. Describe the consequence and obtain direction unless the user has already chosen it. …
Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add tt-a1i/archify/simplify-codebase@sha256:22bde2ab929b077dThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261009.7ef7c0c, 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_ze43v5fhamzel7hr)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 2 versions of this file, all committed on Oct 9, 2026.
| version | committed | commit | size | audit | |
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| git:20261009.7ef7c0c latest | 2026-10-09 | 7ef7c0c | 6,935 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20261009.d254f2d | 2026-10-09 | d254f2d | 6,908 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 (6935 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
tt-a1i/archify · 85,866 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-19 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_ze43v5fhamzel7hr GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=tt-a1i/archify/simplify-codebase GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/22bde2ab929b077da49000fb5a2479ed3fd8cb74d4e6d904c01d65efafb936fa
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