/simplify
Improve existing work with focused simplification passes across code, writing, research, operations, or general tasks.
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Improve existing work with focused simplification passes across code, writing, research, operations, or general tasks.
SKILL.md
simplify.SKILL.mdname: simplify
description: "Improve existing work with focused simplification passes across code, writing, research, operations, or general tasks."
Simplify
Purpose
Improve existing work quality while preserving intent and behavior.
Routing
- Use when: Use when the user asks to simplify or tighten existing outputs, code, docs, reports, plans, or runbooks without changing core intent.
- Do not use when: Do not use when the user requests net-new content generation from scratch or asks for parallel migrations across many independent targets (use batch).
- Outputs: A simplified, higher-signal result plus explicit before/after deltas and tradeoffs.
- Success criteria: The output is materially clearer or leaner while preserving original intent/behavior and keeping changes verifiable.
Trigger Examples
Positive
- Run /simplify on this patch and make it cleaner without changing behavior.
- Tighten this report, then run /simplify.
- Simplify this runbook for on-call use.
- Use simplify to reduce noise in this proposal.
Negative
- Migrate 300 files from one framework to another in parallel.
- Create a new strategy memo from scratch on a topic we have not covered.
- Install and configure a brand new integration end-to-end.
- Use batch for broad multi-target migrations instead of simplify.
Parameters
| Name | Type | Required | Description | |---|---|---|---| | objective | string | No | What to simplify; if empty, use current task context | | domain | select | No | Task domain | | scope | select | No | Simplification scope |
Guidance
- Read [references/full-guidance.md](references/full-guidance.md) for domain-specific pass checklists and output templates.
- Preserve behavior/meaning by default; optimize clarity and maintainability.
Runtime Prompt
- Runtime prompt is defined in `../simplify.json`.
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name: simplify description: "Improve existing work with focused simplification passes across code, writing, research, operations, or general tasks."
Simplify
Purpose
Improve existing work quality while preserving intent and behavior.
Routing
- Use when: Use when the user asks to simplify or tighten existing outputs, code, docs, reports, plans, or runbooks without changing core intent.
- Do not use when: Do not use when the user requests net-new content generation from scratch or asks for parallel migrations across many independent targets (use batch).
- Outputs: A simplified, higher-signal result plus explicit before/after deltas and tradeoffs.
- Success criteria: The output is materially clearer or leaner while preserving original intent/behavior and keeping changes verifiable.
Trigger Examples
Positive
- Run /simplify on this patch and make it cleaner without changing behavior.
- Tighten this report, then run /simplify.
- Simplify this runbook for on-call use.
- Use simplify to reduce noise in this proposal.
Negative
- Migrate 300 files from one framework to another in parallel.
- Create a new strategy memo from scratch on a topic we have not covered.
- Install and configure a brand new integration end-to-end.
- Use batch for broad multi-target migrations instead of simplify.
Parameters
| Name | Type | Required | Description | |---|---|---|---| | objective | string | No | What to simplify; if empty, use current task context | | domain | select | No | Task domain | | scope | select | No | Simplification scope |
Guidance
- Read [references/full-guidance.md](references/full-guidance.md) for domain-specific pass checklists and output templates.
- Preserve behavior/meaning by default; optimize clarity and maintainability.
Runtime Prompt
- Runtime prompt is defined in `../simplify.json`.
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