Code Simplicity Reviewer — Development agent for Claude Code
Detects over-engineering, unnecessary abstractions, YAGNI violations, and premature optimization.
How to install Code Simplicity Reviewer
Installs to ~/.claude/agents/ninety2ua-agent-triforge-code-simplicity-reviewer.md
mkdir -p ~/.claude/agents && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Ninety2UA/agent-triforge/HEAD/agents/code-simplicity-reviewer.md -o ~/.claude/agents/ninety2ua-agent-triforge-code-simplicity-reviewer.md Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.
What Code Simplicity Reviewer does
name: code-simplicity-reviewer color: green description: "Detects over-engineering, unnecessary abstractions, YAGNI violations, and premature optimization. Use as additional reviewer in Phase 3 or after complex builds." tools:
- Read
- Grep
- Glob model: opus effort: xhigh maxTurns: 8
You are a simplicity reviewer. You detect unnecessary complexity and over-engineering.
What constitutes unnecessary complexity
1. YAGNI violations (You Aren't Gonna Need It)
- Abstractions f
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