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Code Optimizer — Development skill for Claude Code

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Remove duplication, dead code, and needless indirection — fewer lines as a result, never as the goal.

How to install Code Optimizer

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/mkober-muxcode-code-optimizer/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/mkober-muxcode-code-optimizer && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mkober/muxcode/HEAD/skills/code-optimizer.md -o ~/.claude/skills/mkober-muxcode-code-optimizer/SKILL.md

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

What Code Optimizer does

name: code-optimizer description: Remove duplication, dead code, and needless indirection — fewer lines as a result, never as the goal roles: [edit, review] tags: [refactor, simplification, readability]

Reducing code

Priority order: **correctness > readability > size.** Fewer lines is a *symptom* of removing duplication and indirection, never the objective. Code optimized for line count becomes dense, loses its guards, and costs more to read than it saved.

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