Skill Simplify

by catlog22

Skill Simplify is a Quality skill for Claude Code, published by catlog22 in maestro-flow.

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Install Skill Simplify

Copy Skill Simplify into your Claude Code skills folder. Run the command in your terminal, or review the source on GitHub before installing.

terminal

npx degit https://github.com/catlog22/maestro-flow/tree/master/.claude/skills/skill-simplify ~/.claude/skills/skill-simplify

Requires Node.js. Downloads this skill only — not the rest of the repository — into your Claude Code skills folder.

Without Node.js

git clone https://github.com/catlog22/maestro-flow.git

Clones the whole repository, then copy the skill’s own directory into your skills folder yourself.

In this catalog

Source file: .claude/skills/skill-simplify/SKILL.md in catlog22/maestro-flow
Installs to: ~/.claude/skills/skill-simplify
Collection: One of 25 skills cataloged from this repository
Category: Quality — 1354 skills

What Skill Simplify does

Skill Simplify analyzes a skill file for redundancy, trims descriptive content, and checks that functional elements are still intact. Use it when simplifying or optimizing a skill without losing behavior.

Skill Simplify is cataloged under Quality on DirSkills. Skill Simplify comes from a repository tagged ai-agents, claude-code, cli, codex and gemini.

Documentation

README

Excerpt

Skill Simplify

Three-phase pipeline: analyze functional inventory, apply optimization rules, verify integrity.

Phase Reference Documents (read on-demand):

Phase	Document	Purpose
1	phases/01-analysis.md	Extract functional inventory, identify redundancy, validate pseudo-code format
2	phases/02-optimize.md	Apply simplification rules, fix format issues
3	phases/03-check.md	Verify functional integrity, validate format

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This is the opening of the README. Read the full README on GitHub.

Frequently asked about Skill Simplify

What else does catlog22 publish alongside Skill Simplify?
Skill Simplify is one of 25 skills that DirSkills catalogs from catlog22/maestro-flow, the repository it ships in. Its siblings there include Maestro Companion, Maestro Fork and Maestro Guard. Each one is a separate skill with its own page in this directory, installs the same way Skill Simplify does, and is maintained by catlog22 in that same repository. The rest of the collection is listed on the catlog22/maestro-flow page.
How does Skill Simplify compare to other Quality skills?
Skill Simplify ranks #1190 by stars among the 1354 Quality skills in this catalog. The most-starred ones next to it are Benchmark, Benchmark Optimization Loop and API Design Patterns. DirSkills ranks by the star count of the repository each skill ships in, so that order reflects how popular those repositories are rather than any review of Skill Simplify against them. Open each page to compare what they document and how they install.