Review And Simplify ChangesSAFE

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name: review-and-simplify-changes
description: "Review a git diff or explicit file scope for reuse, code quality, efficiency, clarity, and standards issues, then optionally apply safe Codex-driven fixes. Use when the user asks to \"simplify code\", \"review changed code\", \"check for code reuse\", \"review code quality\", \"review efficiency\", \"simplify changes\", \"clean up code\", \"refactor changes\", or \"run simplify\"."
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# Review and Simplify Changes

Review changed code for reuse, quality, efficiency, and clarity issues. Use Codex sub-agents to review in parallel, but keep those sub-agents read-only: they should only inspect code and send findings back to the main agent. Only the main agent may apply high-confidence, behavior-preserving fixes.

## Modes

Choose the mode from the user's request:

- `review-only`: user asks to review, audit, or check the changes
- `safe-fixes`: user asks to simplify, clean up, or refactor the changes
- `fix-and-validate`: same as `safe-fixes`, but also run the smallest relevant validation after edits

If the user does not specify, default to:

- `review-only` for "review", "audit", or "check"
- `safe-fixes` for "simplify", "clean up", or "refactor"

## Step 1: Determine the Scope and Diff Command

Prefer this scope order:

1. Files or paths explicitly named by the user
2. Current git changes
3. Files edited earlier in the current Codex turn
4. Most recently modified tracked files, only if the user asked for a review but there is no diff

If there is no clear scope, stop and say so briefly.

When using git changes, determine the smallest correct diff command based on the repo state:

- unstaged work: `git diff`
- staged work: `git diff --cached`
- branch or commit comparison explicitly requested by the user: use that exact diff target
- mixed staged and unstaged work: review both

Do not assume `git diff HEAD` is the right default when a smaller diff is available.

Before reviewing standards or applying fixes, read the repo's local instruction files and relevant project docs for the touched area. Prefer the closest applicable guidance, such as:

- `AGENTS.md`
- repo workflow docs
- architecture or style docs for the touched module

Use those instructions to distinguish real issues from intentional local patterns.

## Step 2: Launch Four Read-Only Review Sub-Agents in Parallel

Use Codex sub-agents when the scope is large enough for parallel review to help. For a tiny diff or one very small file, it is acceptable to review locally instead.

When spawning sub-agents:

- give each sub-agent the same scope
- tell each sub-agent to inspect only its assigned review role
- tell each sub-agent it is operating in a read-only review pass
- do not let sub-agents edit files, run `apply_patch`, stage changes, commit, or perform other state-mutating actions
- ask for concise, structured findings only
- ask each sub-agent to report file, line or symbol, problem, recommended fix, and confidence
- ask each sub-agent to return findings to the main agent only; they must not implement fixes themselves

Use four review roles.

### Sub-Agent 1: Code Reuse Review

Review the changes for reuse opportunities:

1. Search for existing helpers, utilities, or shared abstractions that already solve the same problem.
2. Flag duplicated functions or near-duplicate logic introduced in the change.
3. Flag inline logic that should call an existing helper instead of re-implementing it.

This sub-agent is read-only. It must not edit files, apply patches, or make any other workspace changes.

Recommended sub-agent role: `explorer` for broad codebase lookup, or `reviewer` if a stronger review pass is more useful than wide search.

### Sub-Agent 2: Code Quality Review

Review the same changes for code quality issues:

1. Redundant state, cached values, or derived values stored unnecessarily
2. Parameter sprawl caused by threading new arguments through existing call chains
3. Copy-paste with slight variation that should become a shared abstraction
4. Leaky abstractions or ownership violations across module boundaries
5. Stringly-typed values where existing typed contracts, enums, or constants already exist

This sub-agent is read-only. It must not edit files, apply patches, or make any other workspace changes.

Recommended sub-agent role: `reviewer`

### Sub-Agent 3: Efficiency Review

Review the same changes for efficiency issues:

1. Repeated work, duplicate reads, duplicate API calls, or unnecessary recomputation
2. Sequential work that could safely run concurrently
3. New work added to startup, render, request, or other hot paths without clear need
4. Pre-checks for existence when the operation itself can be attempted directly and errors handled
5. Memory growth, missing cleanup, or listener/subscription leaks
6. Overly broad reads or scans when the code only needs a subset

This sub-agent is read-only. It must not edit files, apply patches, or make any other workspace changes.

Recommended sub-agent role: `reviewer`

### Sub-Agent 4: Clarity and Standards Review

Review the same changes for clarity, local standards, and balance:

1. Violations of local project conventions or module patterns
2. Unnecessary complexity, deep nesting, weak names, or redundant comments
3. Overly compact or clever code that reduces readability
4. Over-simplification that collapses separate concerns into one unclear unit
5. Dead code, dead abstractions, or indirection without value

This sub-agent is read-only. It must not edit files, apply patches, or make any other workspace changes.

Recommended sub-agent role: `reviewer`

Only report issues that materially improve maintainability, correctness, or cost. Do not churn code just to make it look different.

## Step 3: Aggregate Findings

Wait for all review sub-agents to complete, then merge their findings.

The main agent owns this step. Treat sub-agent output as review input only, not as permission to delegate code changes back out.

Normalize fin

SAFEgrade B · trust 89/100 Nothing in the source contradicts what it says it does. Grade A is reserved for packages that have also passed the behavioural sandbox.

What the source does

Filesystem

none-observed

Network

none-observed

Shell

none-observed

Dependencies

pinned

Secrets in source

none-found

Findings (0)

No findings outside the package's declared scope.

Gates applied: no_behavioural_pass.

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