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checking-simplicity

100 / 100 · Low risk

Fine to try.

By jrgilbertson/the-rookery (GitHub) · coding · 15 stars · scanned at commit fe91747

Use when the user asks to simplify, right-size, identify overengineering, compare with a stated smaller alternative, choose the smallest viable approach, check for simplicity as well, or test whether reuse removes the need for change on a named architecture, design, area, plan, technical choice, or code-level approach. General architecture comparison or product brainstorming without that simplification intent stays with planning. Also use during a build or plan-to-build handoff when the next st…

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/'checking-simplicity' ] || [ -L ~/.agents/skills/'checking-simplicity' ]; then echo 'A skill folder named checking-simplicity already exists — not replacing it' >&2; false; else d=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --quiet --filter=blob:none --no-checkout 'https://github.com/jrgilbertson/the-rookery' "$d" && git -C "$d" checkout --quiet 'fe91747fd433a69c80e700ee28c2c1c9f0a83998' -- 'skills/checking-simplicity' && mkdir -p ~/.agents/skills && cp -R "$d"/'skills/checking-simplicity' ~/.agents/skills/'checking-simplicity' && 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/'checking-simplicity' ~/.claude/skills/'checking-simplicity' (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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