code-simplifier Skill

Chinese: README_zh.md

code-simplifier was originally announced and released by Claude Code lead Boris Cherny (X: @bcherny). Its core purpose is to automatically simplify code after long coding sessions or before complex PRs by removing redundancy, reducing complexity, and improving readability while strictly preserving existing behavior. Many developers describe it as a "spaghetti-code prevention" tool.

Because the plugin is currently only available inside the Claude Code plugin ecosystem, this repository ports it into a SKILL format so more CLIs and IDE plugins can reuse it. This is an unofficial port.

Structure

• code-simplifier/SKILL.md: Skill definition and behavior.

Install

1. Copy the code-simplifier directory into $CODEX_HOME/skills/.
2. If CODEX_HOME is not set, use ~/.codex/skills/.
3. Restart the Codex CLI session to load the new skill.

Usage

• See code-simplifier/SKILL.md for behavior, scope, and process details.