Prompt file imported from enzosinger/gainly (
.codex/prompts/code-simplify.md). Copyright stays with the author.
Invoke the agent-skills:code-simplification skill.
Simplify recently changed code (or the specified scope) while preserving exact behavior:
- Read CLAUDE.md and study project conventions
- Identify the target code — recent changes unless a broader scope is specified
- Understand the code's purpose, callers, edge cases, and test coverage before touching it
- Scan for simplification opportunities:
- Deep nesting → guard clauses or extracted helpers
- Long functions → split by responsibility
- Nested ternaries → if/else or switch
- Generic names → descriptive names
- Duplicated logic → shared functions
- Dead code → remove after confirming
- Apply each simplification incrementally — run tests after each change
- Verify all tests pass, the build succeeds, and the diff is clean
If tests fail after a simplification, revert that change and reconsider. Use code-review-and-quality to review the result.