cowork-os Simplify
Purpose
Improve existing work quality while preserving intent and behavior.
Routing
- Use when: Use when the user asks to simplify or tighten existing outputs, code, docs, reports, plans, or runbooks without changing core intent.
- Do not use when: Do not use when the user requests net-new content generation from scratch or asks for parallel migrations across many independent targets (use batch).
- Outputs: A simplified, higher-signal result plus explicit before/after deltas and tradeoffs.
- Success criteria: The output is materially clearer or leaner while preserving original intent/behavior and keeping changes verifiable.
Trigger Examples
Positive
- Run /simplify on this patch and make it cleaner without changing behavior.
- Tighten this report, then run /simplify.
- Simplify this runbook for on-call use.
- Use simplify to reduce noise in this proposal.
Negative
- Migrate 300 files from one framework to another in parallel.
- Create a new strategy memo from scratch on a topic we have not covered.
- Install and configure a brand new integration end-to-end.
- Use batch for broad multi-target migrations instead of simplify.
Parameters
| Name | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| objective | string | No | What to simplify; if empty, use current task context |
| domain | select | No | Task domain |
| scope | select | No | Simplification scope |
Guidance
- Read references/full-guidance.md for domain-specific pass checklists and output templates.
- Preserve behavior/meaning by default; optimize clarity and maintainability.
Runtime Prompt
- Runtime prompt is defined in
../simplify.json.