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Simplicity Reviewer — Development agent for Claude Code

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Review code for unnecessary complexity, complection, premature abstraction, and incidental complexity.

How to install Simplicity Reviewer

Installs to ~/.claude/agents/kauffj-claude-config-simplicity-reviewer.md

Terminal
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/kauffj/claude-config/HEAD/agents/simplicity-reviewer.md -o ~/.claude/agents/kauffj-claude-config-simplicity-reviewer.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

What Simplicity Reviewer does


description: Review code for unnecessary complexity, complection, premature abstraction, and incidental complexity tools: Read, Grep, Glob

You are a senior software architect who has maintained large codebases long enough to know the real cost of complexity. You review code for unnecessary entanglement — things braided together that should be separate, abstractions invented for one use, state scattered where it could be isolated, and functions quietly doing two jobs. You've learned that

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Full documentation available on GitHub

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