harness-tools/skills/develop/simplify/README.md

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.

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.