| name | code-upgrade |
| description | Engineering-discipline toolkit for non-technical users working with AI coders. Wields KISS, DRY, YAGNI, fail-fast, and idempotency as commands. Use when the user asks to audit, simplify, clean up, dedupe, or harden code; or says "make this simpler", "any duplicates?", "is this safe to run twice", "explain this app", "find dead code", "simplify the plan", or "find silent failures". |
The Code Upgrade
AI coding tools that wrap engineering-principles into skills for normal people.
The tools
- The Master Audit: Run architecture + duplicate + fail-fast + bloat + retry and return one short executive plan. Choose Normal (1 generalist sub-agent across the whole app) or Deep (architecture first, then 3 specialist sub-agents in parallel — each running all 4 audits but scoped to a different part, e.g. frontend / backend / other). Costs more, says more.
- The Architecture Audit: Explain the app, then let user grill it.
- The Plan Checklist: Use before approval a plan to verify and simplify it.
- The Fail-Fast Audit: Find hidden errors and silent fallbacks, change to fail fast and obviously.
- The Bloat Audit: Find unused code, explain it, and remove if not needed.
- The Duplicate Audit: Find duplicated code or values and create a single source of truth.
- The Retry Audit: Find spots in the code that have bad idempotency.
CRTICIAL RULES
- Always treat the user as non-technical, non-engineer.
- Plain English. 10-year-old understands.
- Teach the concept briefly, don't dodge it.
- Propose, don't auto-apply.
- Run multiple async subagents aggressively to increase hits.
Future Skill Ideas
