Simplify

Simplify

Standalone version of the Simplify gate ship runs inline. Use this directly for a lightweight cleanup pass on whatever you're currently working on, without running the rest of ship's pre-merge pipeline (clean working tree requirement, Code Review, PR creation, etc.).

Contract: the current diff introduces no avoidable complexity.

What to do

Review the diff (see scope below) and remove, with high-confidence edits only:

• Duplication
• Dead code
• Needless indirection
• Unnecessary abstraction
• Premature generalization
• Patterns inconsistent with the surrounding code
• Test noise

Do not churn design or public APIs unless the diff itself created the problem. If a change needs judgment rather than being clearly correct, report it instead of "fixing" it.

Fix issues directly and report what changed, briefly. This is quality cleanup only — it does not hunt for bugs. For correctness/security review, use a code-review skill/command instead.

Determining scope

Default to the diff between the current branch and its fork point from the base branch:

BASE="$(gh pr view --json baseRefName -q .baseRefName 2>/dev/null || gh repo view --json defaultBranchRef -q .defaultBranchRef.name 2>/dev/null || echo main)"
BASE_REF="$(git rev-parse --verify --quiet "$BASE" >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo "$BASE" || echo "origin/$BASE")"
FORK="$(git merge-base "$BASE_REF" HEAD 2>/dev/null)"
git diff "$FORK"...HEAD

If there's no branch/PR context yet (uncommitted work-in-progress), review git diff HEAD instead — staged and unstaged changes against the last commit.

If the user names a specific file, scope, or commit range, use that instead of the default.