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Helps Codex prefer direct solutions over speculative abstractions, overengineering, and unnecessary configurability.
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Behavioral guardrails for Codex that reduce assumption drift, overengineering, scope creep, and weak verification. Use when a task is ambiguous, easy to overbuild, or likely to trigger unnecessary edits.
Helps Codex surface risky assumptions, clarify ambiguity selectively, and avoid silently choosing the wrong interpretation.
Helps Codex turn vague fix or refactor requests into concrete goals with targeted verification loops.
Behavioral guardrails for Codex that reduce assumption drift, overengineering, scope creep, and weak verification. Use when a task is ambiguous, easy to overbuild, or likely to trigger unnecessary edits.
Keeps Codex focused on scoped edits, matching existing style while avoiding unrelated rewrites and drive-by cleanup.
| name | simplicity-first |
| description | Helps Codex prefer direct solutions over speculative abstractions, overengineering, and unnecessary configurability. |
Use this skill when a task could easily expand into more architecture than the request deserves.
Write the minimum code that completely solves the stated problem.
Ask:
Would a strong reviewer say this solution is more complicated than the problem requires?
If yes, simplify before shipping.
