simplify

Simplifies code for clarity without changing behavior. Use for readability, maintainability, and complexity reduction after behavior is understood.

Quality

80%

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Quality

Content

85%

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

The body is lean, well-structured, and has a clear validated workflow, but its actionability is held back by the absence of concrete before/after examples illustrating the simplifications.

Suggestions

Add one or two short before/after code snippets (e.g. a nested ternary replaced with control flow) to make the guidance concrete and copy-paste ready.

Consolidate the repeated behavior-preservation guidance so the principle is stated once and referenced, trimming redundancy across Principles, Process, and Verification.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Conciseness	The body is bullet-driven and assumes Claude's competence, with no padding explaining what refactoring or code is; behavior-preservation recurs but as brief reinforcement rather than verbose restatement.	3 / 3
Actionability	Concrete signals (deep nesting, nested ternaries, boolean flag arguments) and do/don't lists are actionable, but there are no worked before/after examples, leaving the transformation guidance more directive than copy-paste ready.	2 / 3
Workflow Clarity	A clear four-step process is sequenced with explicit validation checkpoints ("Run relevant tests", "Keep it only if behavior is preserved") and a closing Verification Checklist for error recovery.	3 / 3
Progressive Disclosure	The skill is a single self-contained file with no bundle references and well-organized sections (Overview, Principles, Process, Checklist) giving easy navigation; no splitting is needed at this length.	3 / 3
	Total	11 / 12 Passed

Description

75%

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 well-formed with third-person voice, an explicit "Use for" trigger, and a clear niche, but it under-specifies concrete actions and misses common trigger phrasings.

Suggestions

Add concrete actions to raise specificity, e.g. "Simplifies code for clarity without changing behavior — flattens nesting, extracts helpers, removes dead code. Use when ..."

Broaden trigger terms with phrasings users actually say, such as "refactor", "clean up", "make this more readable", alongside readability/maintainability/complexity.

Dimension	Reasoning	Score
Specificity	"Simplifies code for clarity without changing behavior" names the domain and one core action, but it does not enumerate multiple specific concrete actions (e.g. flattening nesting, extracting helpers) the way the anchor-3 example does.	2 / 3
Completeness	It states what the skill does ("Simplifies code for clarity without changing behavior") and gives an explicit "Use for ... after behavior is understood" trigger clause, answering both what and when.	3 / 3
Trigger Term Quality	"readability, maintainability, and complexity reduction" are reasonably natural terms, but common variations users would actually say ("refactor", "clean up", "simplify this") are absent, leaving coverage incomplete.	2 / 3
Distinctiveness Conflict Risk	The behavior-preserving simplification framing carves a clear niche distinct from a general refactor or feature skill, with triggers unlikely to fire for unrelated skills.	3 / 3
	Total	10 / 12 Passed

Validation

100%

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

Validation — 16 / 16 Passed

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No warnings or errors.

Repository: alvinunreal/oh-my-opencode-slim
Path: src/skills/simplify/SKILL.md
Commit: 1c0e1f4

Reviewed: about 7 hours ago

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