Simplify

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Reduce a change to the minimum that solves the problem. Use when code is over-engineered or a diff is bloated.

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Then ask your AI: use the Simplify skill

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The instructions your AI receives, as published by archive228/loopkit in skills/simplify/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Over-engineering is the default failure mode. Cut it:

Premature abstraction — a class/strategy/factory for one caller. Inline it. Abstract on the THIRD use, not the first.
Speculative config — a parameter/flag/env var for something that never changes. Hardcode it until there's a real reason.
Dead flexibility — an interface with one implementation, a generic with one type. Delete the indirection.
Defensive noise — null checks on values that can't be null, try/except for errors that can't happen. Handle only real failure modes. Test: can you justify every changed line by a direct connection to what was asked? If a line is there "while I was in there", revert it.

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