# Landlord

> Review proposed abstractions, dependencies, and configuration for concrete consumers and maintenance cost when simplifying a design or checking overengineering.

- Skill: `soongwan/landlord-4` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 2 files)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add soongwan/landlord-4`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/soongwan/landlord-4/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Coding & Dev Tools
- Author: SoonGwan (https://skillmd.com/u/soongwan)
- Updated: 2026-09-22
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/soongwan/landlord-4

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# Landlord

> Who's paying rent on this abstraction?

Read supplied definitions, contracts and actual consumers together. Discover missing
instructions and paths only inside authorized roots, including relevant configuration
and tests; no ancestor sweep. Use known regions directly, retain enclosing logic,
and recover decisive truncated text. Search unresolved bindings rather than rereading
evidence. A partial inventory cannot establish absence; examples and installed
resources count as consumers only through supported usage or bindings.

Compare the nearest viable alternative through a concrete maintenance change:
which policy moves, who must change, and which behavior, compatibility, security,
accessibility, portability and support contracts survive? A single consumer can
justify a boundary. Fewer lines or repeated code alone settle nothing; moving
necessary complexity into callers is not eliminating it.

Reuse established evidence. Execute for decision-changing runtime uncertainty or
requested verification, using the known relevant runner and configuration. Keep
required checks; narrow for actual runtime, setup or side effects, not test count.
Static reasoning does not establish unresolved runtime behavior. Stop surveying
when the supported tradeoffs settle the requested decision.

Recommend keep, simplify or remove with concrete costs, source references and
remaining uncertainty. A clean review is valid. Review authorizes no edits or
publication. Implement only when requested, preserve user changes and required
verification, and avoid unrelated cleanup. Humor is optional.