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ockhams-equivalent-designs

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By hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins (GitHub) · design · 1,568 stars · scanned at commit 3e1e6b2

Identify when two design options are functionally equivalent so the razor can be applied. Use when comparing design alternatives, evaluating whether two implementations of a feature actually produce the same outcome, or recognizing that a complex solution doesn't earn its place against a simpler one. Most design debates involve actual tradeoffs; the razor only cuts when the alternatives genuinely produce equivalent results. The skill is identifying equivalence honestly rather than rationalizing…

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What this skill can do

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Paste this into your terminal. It downloads exactly the version we scanned, not whatever is newest.

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'ockhams-equivalent-designs' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'ockhams-equivalent-designs' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named ockhams-equivalent-designs already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/hashgraph-online/awesome-codex-plugins' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet '3e1e6b20ffc28f42923e391f29f075c424e19e64' -- 'plugins/HDeibler/universal-design-principles/plugins/process-and-robustness-principles/skills/ockhams-equivalent-designs' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'plugins/HDeibler/universal-design-principles/plugins/process-and-robustness-principles/skills/ockhams-equivalent-designs' ~/.agents/skills/'ockhams-equivalent-designs' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

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