Agent Skill

Ego Lite Simplify skill

ego-lite-simplifycitrolabs/ego-lite.github/dev-skills/ego-lite-simplify/SKILL.md

Find and implement evidence-backed simplifications in the ego-lite repository. Use when reviewing the codebase for dead code, duplicated state or APIs, speculative abstractions, unnecessary compatibility layers, hand-written infrastructure, excessive tests or documentation, or when the user asks to reduce code size or maintenance complexity without hiding behavior changes.

19kMIT

always on

68 tokname + description

once used

891 tokSKILL.md body

bundled files

11 KB

repo stars

19kGitHub

Install the Ego Lite Simplify skill

Skills CLI (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others)

npx skills add https://github.com/citrolabs/ego-lite --skill ego-lite-simplify

Claude Code, by hand (all projects)

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/citrolabs/ego-lite.git /tmp/ego-lite
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -R /tmp/ego-lite/.github/dev-skills/ego-lite-simplify ~/.claude/skills/ego-lite-simplify

For one project only, copy the folder into .claude/skills/ in that project instead. The agent picks it up when a task matches its description.

What it costs your context

Agent Skills load in three steps. Tokens counted with the o200k tokenizer; your model's count will differ a little.

When	What loads	Cost
Every session	Name and description	68 tok
When the agent uses it	The SKILL.md instructions	891 tok
Only if opened	1 bundled files (1 KB)	varies

Until it is used, ego-lite-simplify costs about 20× less than the median MCP server we measured (1,362 tokens on every turn). Installing all 3 skills from citrolabs/ego-lite would load 197 tokens of descriptions. Skills vs MCP study

Checks

Our checks found nothing to flag: it follows the Agent Skills specification's naming and size guidelines and doesn't pipe downloads into a shell.

Checked 2026-10-22 · method

What's inside

The headings of its SKILL.md. Read the full file on GitHub.

Simplify ego-lite
Establish the contract
Find strong candidates
Prove each candidate
Report before broad removal
Implement safely

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