I've published a
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skill that makes generated code leaner. It scrapes unnecessary slop out of AI-written code, reduces the number of concepts a reader has to understand, and introduces new invariants so there are fewer special cases to handle.
At the end you get a report on what was simplified automatically, and which further improvements are possible with your consent.
It only applies safe, local changes automatically, the kind that don't needlessly bloat the diff. The optional improvements increasingly reach into existing code to make it reusable for the current change, which means more code to review. It also lists candidates that change behavior a little, but in exchange offer large savings.
Installing
Try it with:
npx skills add triskweline/skills --global --skill trim-code
Screenshot
This is the report you get when it has auto-applied the safe trimmings and now shows you the other change candidates:
