# Simplify Skill

Behavior-preserving code simplification and readability-focused refactoring.

## Overview

This skill guides agents to reduce unnecessary complexity while preserving behavior. It emphasizes understanding callers and edge cases before editing, following project conventions, making incremental changes, and verifying each refactor.

## Source

Adapted from Addy Osmani's [`code-simplification` skill](https://github.com/addyosmani/agent-skills/blob/main/skills/code-simplification/SKILL.md).

## Installation

This skill is maintained in `skills/develop/simplify` within the `harness-tools` repository. The global installation at `~/.agents/skills/simplify` is a symlink to this directory.