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csimplify

Review changed code for reuse, quality, and efficiency — fix issues before review. Use when the user says 'simplify', 'clean up', 'review the code', or wants to improve code quality before formal review.

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csimplify
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Review changed code for reuse, quality, and efficiency — fix issues before review. Use when the user says 'simplify', 'clean up', 'review the code', or wants to improve code quality before formal review.
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# Simplify: Code Review and Cleanup Review all changed files for reuse, quality, and efficiency. Fix any issues found. ## Subagents This skill uses the `cexplore` subagent and launches three parallel review subagents for code analysis. ## Phase 1: Understand Context and Identify Changes 1. Read `docs/plans/.latest` to get the plan path, then read the plan document. This tells you what was implemented, which files were touched, and the intent behind the changes. 2. Run `git diff` (or `git diff HEAD` if there are staged changes) to see the actual code changes. Use the plan as a map — it tells you what each change is supposed to accomplish. 3. Read the changed files fully so you understand the surrounding code, not just the diff hunks. ## Phase 2: Launch Three Review Agents in Parallel Use the `runSubAgent` tool to launch all three agents concurrently in a single message. Pass each agent the full diff so it has the complete context. ### Agent 1: Code Reuse Review For each change: 1. **Search for existing utilities and helpers** that could replace newly written code. Use search to find similar patterns elsewhere in the codebase — common locations are utility directories, shared modules, and files adjacent to the changed ones. 2. **Flag any new function that duplicates existing functionality.** Suggest the existing function to use instead. 3. **Flag any inline logic that could use an existing utility** — hand-rolled string manipulation, manual path handling, custom environment checks, ad-hoc type guards, and similar patterns are common candidates. ### Agent 2: Code Quality Review Review the same changes for hacky patterns: 1. **Redundant state**: state that duplicates existing state, cached values that could be derived, observers/effects that could be direct calls 2. **Parameter sprawl**: adding new parameters to a function instead of generalizing or restructuring existing ones 3. **Copy-paste with slight variation**: near-duplicate code blocks that should be unified with a shared abstraction 4. **Leaky abstractions**: exposing internal details that should be encapsulated, or breaking existing abstraction boundaries 5. **Stringly-typed code**: using raw strings where constants, enums (string unions), or branded types already exist in the codebase ### Agent 3: Efficiency Review Review the same changes for efficiency: 1. **Unnecessary work**: redundant computations, repeated file reads, duplicate network/API calls, N+1 patterns 2. **Missed concurrency**: independent operations run sequentially when they could run in parallel 3. **Hot-path bloat**: new blocking work added to startup or per-request/per-render hot paths 4. **Unnecessary existence checks**: pre-checking file/resource existence before operating (TOCTOU anti-pattern) — operate directly and handle the error 5. **Memory**: unbounded data structures, missing cleanup, event listener leaks 6. **Overly broad operations**: reading entire files when only a portion is needed, loading all items when filtering for one ## Phase 3: Fix Issues Wait for all three agents to complete. Aggregate their findings and fix each issue directly. If a finding is a false positive or not worth addressing, note it and move on — do not argue with the finding, just skip it. After fixing, commit the cleanup as a single commit: `refactor: simplify and clean up implementation` ## Phase 4: Handover When done, briefly summarize what was fixed (or confirm the code was already clean). Use `#askQuestions` to ask what the user wants to do next: | Option | When to show | |--------|-------------| | **Review Changes (Recommended)** — hand off to `creview` agent for formal code review | Always (default) | | **Ship It** — load the `/cgit-commit-push-pr` skill to create a PR | When changes are minor/low-risk | | **Document Learnings** — load the `/ccompound` skill | When non-trivial patterns were discovered | | **Done** — end the workflow | Always | **After the user picks a next skill**, announce the handover and load the chosen skill.
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