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ockhams-feature-pruning

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

Prune accumulated complexity from a product — features, options, settings, code paths that no longer earn their place. Use when auditing a mature product, reducing surface area, simplifying complex workflows, or evaluating whether to remove low-usage features. Pruning is harder than adding because users (often a small but vocal minority) resist removal even when usage data justifies it. The skill is identifying what to prune, deciding how, and managing the transition.

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

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Install

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

if [ -e ~/.agents/skills/'ockhams-feature-pruning' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'ockhams-feature-pruning' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named ockhams-feature-pruning 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 "$d" checkout --quiet '3e1e6b20ffc28f42923e391f29f075c424e19e64' -- 'plugins/HDeibler/universal-design-principles/plugins/process-and-robustness-principles/skills/ockhams-feature-pruning' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'plugins/HDeibler/universal-design-principles/plugins/process-and-robustness-principles/skills/ockhams-feature-pruning' ~/.agents/skills/'ockhams-feature-pruning' && rm -rf "$d"; fi

Codex reads ~/.agents/skills directly. For Claude Code, Cursor, Copilot, Gemini CLI, Antigravity or OpenCode, also link it. For Claude Code: ln -s ~/.agents/skills/'ockhams-feature-pruning' ~/.claude/skills/'ockhams-feature-pruning' (other agents: ~/.cursor/skills, ~/.copilot/skills, ~/.gemini/skills, ~/.gemini/config/skills, ~/.config/opencode/skills). Or install through the finder skill, which does both.

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