Clean

SkillAI & models

Polish your own diff by hand with KISS/DRY and local style — the pre-handoff pass, not a test run and not a subagent sweep. Use for /clean, "clean it up", "tidy this", and automatically before creating, updating, or automerging a PR or moving to the next one.

Available today. Use it from your connected AI after setup.

Connect ahel once, and every AI you use reads what you have installed.

Then ask your AI: use the Clean skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by outthislife/brooklyn-skills in skills/clean/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

KISS/DRY and copy the local code style. Be elitist, shorthand, clever, concise, efficient, and elegant.

"Clean" means polishing the code — it does NOT mean running the test suite, tsc, or lint as the task. Run a check only if it's genuinely needed to confirm the polish is safe.

Clean is a standalone pass, not just a pre-PR step — run it whenever things get messy, including mid-work. Also run it automatically before any PR handoff (creating, updating, automerging, or moving to the next PR) without being told each time.

Do

  1. Re-read your diff. Cut dead code, leftover debug logging, and duplication.
  2. Extend existing helpers — don't parallel-implement.
  3. Match neighboring style (names, imports, file layout, comment density).
  4. Prefer the small sharp version over ceremony.
  5. UI work: only after they like the UI (ui-only). Use ui-system for primitives.
  6. On the PR: title/body describe the change as a whole (a short intro), not a changelog of steps. Split into topical commits (pr-update), run no-tropes on the text, and link the PR.

Don't

  • Run the test suite / tsc / lint just because you were told to "clean"
  • Unrelated refactors
  • New abstractions with one caller
  • Scope creep dressed up as cleanup

Signals

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