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ce-simplify-code

Simplify recently changed code for clarity, reuse, quality, and efficiency while preserving behavior. Use for tidy/refactor passes; use ce-debug for bugs.

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Reviews the quality of instructions and guidance provided to agents. Good implementation is clear, handles edge cases, and produces reliable results.

A well-structured, highly actionable workflow with strong validation feedback loops and clean progressive disclosure of reviewer rubrics. The main weakness is conciseness — several guardrail explanations and parentheticals could be tightened.

Suggestions

Consolidate the repeated behavior-preservation guidance (Step 3 and Step 4 both restate it at length) into one canonical statement and reference it, to cut redundant prose.

Trim the long parentheticals in the Model selection and Permission mode paragraphs to the essential rule; the surrounding justification can be implied.

Tighten the Preflight paragraph by leading with the no-code gate condition and moving the size-policy carve-out into a single short sentence.

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Conciseness

The procedural core is mostly efficient and earns its tokens, but several passages pad — repeated behavior-preservation restatements, long parentheticals on tool-selection and permission mode, and the dense preflight paragraph could be tightened without losing the gating rules.

2 / 3

Actionability

Gives concrete commands ("git diff origin/main...", "git diff HEAD"), named platform tools (AskUserQuestion, request_user_input, ask_question, ask_user), and explicit reviewer-prompt file paths — copy-paste ready guidance.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

A clearly sequenced 5-step process with explicit validation checkpoints in Step 4 (typecheck, lint, scoped tests) and a feedback loop (fix or revert regressions; do not weaken assertions), plus per-fix behavior checks in Step 3.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

The body is an overview that delegates the three reviewer rubrics to real, one-level-deep files under references/personas/ (verified to exist), with clear signaling and no nested indirection.

3 / 3

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12

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Description

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Based on the skill's description, can an agent find and select it at the right time? Clear, specific descriptions lead to better discovery.

A tight, specific description that answers what and when, uses natural trigger terms, and proactively disambiguates from a related debug skill. It is concise without padding and avoids over-claims.

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Specificity

Lists several concrete actions/foci — "Simplify recently changed code for clarity, reuse, quality, and efficiency while preserving behavior" — naming multiple specific concerns rather than vague abstractions.

3 / 3

Completeness

Explicitly states what it does (simplify changed code across clarity/reuse/quality/efficiency, preserving behavior) and when to use it ("Use for tidy/refactor passes"), with an explicit trigger clause.

3 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

Includes natural terms a user would say — "simplify", "tidy/refactor passes", "recently changed code", "bugs" — with good coverage of common phrasings.

3 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

Carves a clear niche (recently-changed-code simplification) and explicitly disambiguates from a sibling skill ("use ce-debug for bugs"), making wrong-skill triggering unlikely.

3 / 3

Total

12

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12

Passed

Validation

87%

Checks the skill against the spec for correct structure and formatting. All validation checks must pass before discovery and implementation can be scored.

Validation14 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

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Unknown frontmatter key(s) found; consider removing or moving to metadata

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referenced_paths_exist

Referenced path issues: 3 deeper-than-1-level

Warning

Total

14

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16

Passed

Repository
EveryInc/compound-engineering-plugin
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