| name | cc-simplify |
| description | Review changed code for reuse, simplification, efficiency, and altitude cleanups. Quality only — no bug hunt. |
Simplify
Review the changed code for reuse, simplification, efficiency, and altitude cleanups. Apply the fixes.
Scope: code quality, not correctness. For bugs, use cc-review.
Goal: leave the code simpler, cleaner, and easier to read — not just shorter.
What to look for
- Reuse: extract duplicated logic into a helper. Three similar lines is the threshold.
- Simplification: reduce nesting, collapse equivalent branches, replace verbose patterns with idiomatic constructs.
- Efficiency: remove N+1 loops, unnecessary re-computation, redundant I/O.
- Altitude: ensure each function does one thing at one level of abstraction.
- Dead weight: remove commented-out code, unused variables, empty catch blocks.
What to skip
- Renaming (subjective)
- Style preferences not enforced by the linter
- Hypothetical future abstractions
- Anything that changes behavior
Instructions
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Get the changed files:
git diff HEAD --name-only
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Read only the changed sections.
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Identify cleanup opportunities (reuse / simplify / efficiency / altitude).
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Apply each fix directly. Confirm the suite still passes after changes:
npm test
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Report what was changed and why. If nothing to simplify: ✓ already clean.
