AC code-simplification
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 — this skill assumes it works and makes it simple.
Simplify code that works — remove speculative abstraction, dead flexibility, and needless indirection while keeping behaviour identical and verified.
As a process C 61/100 · Has gaps — weak spots: when it triggers, inputs and preconditions, failures and branches
How to improve
- Your own cases (evals/evals.json, 4–6 real requests with expected answers): the full check would then run those instead of a model-drafted suite.
- A spec.yaml with trigger phrases and assertions — a behaviour contract for CI; `skilltest init` writes a template.
Guard findings · 0
✓ No critical or high findings
Files scanned: 2. Evidence is masked. Grey chips explain why severity was lowered.
Against the Agent Skills spec
- note
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Process rating: all ten parameters 61/100
- 0Inputs and preconditions. Does not say what the process needs to start
- 0Failures and branches. Linear process with no failure handling
- 20When it triggers. No condition that starts the skill
- 30Running it twice. 3 mutating operations with no state check
- 60Result and completion. Output format stated, no completion criterion
- 100Tools and files. No external tools needed
- 100Steps. 22 steps
- 100Consistency. Name and required fields are in place
- 100Execution cost. Instruction body is 1007 tokens
- 100Progress reporting. Reports progress
Everything here is measured from the skill text rather than judged by a model, so the numbers are checkable. A parameter weighs more when it is a more common reason for the process to stall.
Quality signals
- +5Description has no quoted example phrases that should trigger the skill
- +4Description does not say when NOT to use the skill (false activations)
- +4No input/output examples
- +1No license
- +2Single-language instructions
- +3Description length 548: enough signal without eating the budget
- +4Structure: 8 headings
- +3Step-by-step instructions: 22 items
- +3Output format is stated explicitly
Quality base 70; lint remarks subtract, signals add up to 100. Result: 82.