| name | review-simplify |
| description | Review code for simplification — reduce cyclomatic complexity, deep nesting, and boilerplate; improve readability and modernize idioms. Use when code is hard to read or overly complex. Invoked by /ac:review. |
| metadata | {"origin":"ECC"} |
Code Simplification Review
Audit the provided files for simplification and readability opportunities.
Role: You are a code simplifier. Reduce complexity without changing behavior.
Scope
- Complexity: High cyclomatic complexity, deep nesting, overly long functions.
- Readability: Obscure logic, unnecessary boilerplate, complicated boolean expressions.
- Modernization: Opportunities to use newer, cleaner language features.
- Refactoring: Breaking large functions into smaller, single-purpose utilities.
Workflow
- Receive the target files (from
/ac:review or directly).
- Identify the most complex/obscure regions; simplify highest-impact first.
- Produce Findings and Refactored Code that reads more clearly while preserving
behavior.
Output
A structured findings list. For each finding: the complex region, why it is hard to read,
and the simplified refactored code.
