A portable quality pass. Refine recently modified code for clarity, consistency, and maintainability without changing behavior. Quality only — this does not hunt for bugs (that is the review step).
Adapted from the code-simplifier agent; works on any harness.
Principles
- Preserve functionality — change how the code does it, never what it does. All outputs and behaviors stay identical.
- Apply project standards — read the project's context file (
CLAUDE.md/AGENTS.md/GEMINI.md) and follow its conventions, instead of imposing any fixed style. - Enhance clarity — reduce unnecessary nesting and complexity, remove redundant code and dead abstractions, improve names, consolidate related logic, drop comments that merely restate the code. Avoid nested ternaries — prefer if/else or switch. Explicit beats clever.
- Maintain balance — do not over-simplify in ways that hurt readability, debuggability, or extension. Do not collapse separate concerns into one unit. Never trade readability for fewer lines.
- Focus scope — only code touched in the current task, unless told to widen.
Process
- Identify the code changed in this task.
- Apply the refinements above.
- Re-run the tests — they MUST stay green. If any fail, you changed behavior; revert that refinement.
- Hand the cleaned diff to the review step.