code-simplify

description: Simplify code for clarity and maintainability — reduce complexity without changing behavior

Invoke the agent-skills:code-simplification skill.

Simplify recently changed code (or the specified scope) while preserving exact behavior:

1. Read CLAUDE.md and study project conventions
2. Identify the target code — recent changes unless a broader scope is specified
3. Understand the code's purpose, callers, edge cases, and test coverage before touching it
4. Scan for simplification opportunities:
   • Deep nesting → guard clauses or extracted helpers
   • Long functions → split by responsibility
   • Nested ternaries → if/else or switch
   • Generic names → descriptive names
   • Duplicated logic → shared functions
   • Dead code → remove after confirming
5. Apply each simplification incrementally — run tests after each change
6. Verify all tests pass, the build succeeds, and the diff is clean

If tests fail after a simplification, revert that change and reconsider. Use code-review-and-quality to review the result.