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ockhams-razor

100 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

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

Apply Ockham's Razor — given a choice between functionally equivalent designs, prefer the simplest. Use when comparing design approaches, evaluating whether a feature is necessary, deciding between elaborate and minimal solutions, auditing a product for accumulated complexity, or pruning features that no longer earn their place. The principle is not "always make things simpler" — it's "when two designs do the same thing, pick the simpler one." Most design problems involve actual tradeoffs; the …

Works with any agent that supports SKILL.md skills.

What this skill can do

We found nothing in the files we read that matches our rules. That does not prove the skill is safe: see the limits of static scanning.

Install

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

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