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simplify-code

Parallel 3-agent cleanup of recent code changes.

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SKILL.md
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Quality

Content

77%

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

The content is highly actionable with concrete commands, ready-to-use reviewer prompts, and a well-sequenced workflow including validation and revert feedback loops. Its main weaknesses are length/redundancy and the absence of any progressive-disclosure reference structure for the longer prompt material.

Suggestions

Eliminate the duplicated SAFE/CAREFUL/RISKY definitions: define them once in Phase 2 and reference them from Phase 3 to reduce length.

Move the three detailed reviewer prompt blocks into a reference file (e.g. references/reviewer-prompts.md) and link to it from Phase 2, improving progressive disclosure and token efficiency.

Tighten the Pitfalls section by merging near-duplicate guidance (e.g. the public-contract and error-handling removal warnings overlap with the RISKY-tier rules).

DimensionReasoningScore

Conciseness

The body is mostly efficient and tailored rather than explaining basic concepts, but at ~200 lines it carries redundancy — the SAFE/CAREFUL/RISKY tiers are defined in Phase 2 and restated in Phase 3 — so it could be tightened.

2 / 3

Actionability

It provides executable git diff commands, copy-paste-ready reviewer prompts, a concrete structured output format, and specific risk-tier handling — fully concrete and actionable rather than abstract direction.

3 / 3

Workflow Clarity

A clear three-phase sequence (identify changes, launch reviewers, aggregate and apply) with explicit validation checkpoints — run tests after each tier/file and revert any fix that breaks a test — gives a genuine feedback loop.

3 / 3

Progressive Disclosure

The body is well-organized into clear sections, but everything is inline with no one-level-deep reference structure, and the long reviewer prompts and pitfalls could be split into reference files for a ~200-line skill.

2 / 3

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12

Passed

Description

50%

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

The description is clear and concise about what the skill does, but it omits any explicit 'when to use' trigger guidance and lacks the natural trigger terms (notably 'simplify') that users would actually say. It is solid but unspecific on invocation conditions.

Suggestions

Add an explicit 'Use when...' clause, e.g. 'Use when the user asks to simplify, review, or clean up their recent code changes.'

Include the primary natural trigger terms — 'simplify', 'review my code', 'clean up my changes' — so the description matches what users actually say.

Name one or two concrete outcomes (e.g. 'deduplicates, refactors, and removes dead code') to lift specificity from a single vague 'cleanup' verb.

DimensionReasoningScore

Specificity

The description names the domain and mechanism ("Parallel 3-agent cleanup of recent code changes") and one action ("cleanup"), but does not enumerate multiple specific concrete actions, so it stops at 'names domain and some actions'.

2 / 3

Completeness

It clearly answers *what* (parallel 3-agent cleanup of recent code changes) but provides no "Use when..." clause or equivalent explicit trigger guidance, so *when* is missing and completeness is capped at 2.

2 / 3

Trigger Term Quality

"cleanup" and "code changes" are reasonably natural terms, but the primary user-facing trigger "simplify" (the skill's own name) and common variants like "review my code" are absent, leaving common variations missing.

2 / 3

Distinctiveness Conflict Risk

The "3-agent parallel" framing is a distinctive niche, but "cleanup of recent code changes" still overlaps with general code-review/refactor skills and the description offers no explicit triggers to disambiguate at invocation time.

2 / 3

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8

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12

Passed

Validation

81%

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

Validation13 / 16 Passed

Validation for skill structure

CriteriaDescriptionResult

metadata_version

'metadata.version' is missing

Warning

metadata_field

'metadata' should map string keys to string values

Warning

frontmatter_unknown_keys

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

Warning

Total

13

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16

Passed

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