radical-simplification
pproenca/dot-skillsCognitive moves for collapsing complexity — reframe, clarify, reduce, decompose, invert, constrain, transfer, generalize, audit — distilled from the working…
Scores out of 100 · grade B+
2026-08-22Works
40% of the score100/100
- Loads cleanly: valid frontmatter, required fields present, no dangling references.
Maintained
25% of the score100/100
- no commits in the last 12 weeks
Adopted
20% of the score31/100
- 196 stars on the source repo.
Documented
15% of the score64/100
- No usage example or code block.
- 1,118-word body.
- Ships 24 bundled files.
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npx skills add pproenca/dot-skills/radical-simplificationWhat it says it does
Cognitive moves for collapsing complexity — reframe, clarify, reduce, decompose, invert, constrain, transfer, generalize, audit — distilled from the working method of mathematicians, physicists, and software engineers known for turning hard problems into simple solutions (Pólya, Feynman, Hamming, Brooks, Knuth, Dijkstra, Lamport, Tao, Grothendieck, Munger, Hofstadter). Use when stuck on a complex problem, when a proposed design feels overengineered, when reviewing code that has accreted accidental complexity, or when the user wants an elegant solution to a hard engineering or product problem. Triggers on phrases like "this feels too complicated", "we are going in circles", "there must be a simpler way", "interview me about this plan", "find the underlying problem", and on stuck-state moments where forward search has run out and the agent needs a different angle.
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