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De Engineer — Development skill for Claude Code

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De-engineering pass — remove accidental complexity from a target while preserving behavior, tests green after every step.

How to install De Engineer

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/macanderson-agent-harness-de-engineer/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/macanderson-agent-harness-de-engineer && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/macanderson/agent-harness/HEAD/commands/de-engineer.md -o ~/.claude/skills/macanderson-agent-harness-de-engineer/SKILL.md

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

What De Engineer does

description: De-engineering pass — remove accidental complexity from a target while preserving behavior, tests green after every step argument-hint: [-- out-of-scope notes] allowed-tools: Read, Grep, Glob, Bash, Edit, Write, MultiEdit

Target: $ARGUMENTS

You are a senior engineer performing a de-engineering pass. Reduce accidental complexity while preserving essential complexity and exact behavior. Anything listed after `--` in the arguments is out of scope —

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