Simplify

• The target ends smaller and clearer, and every behaviour a dependent or ISA criterion relies on still works, shown by the same baseline checks passing before and after.
• No element is cut on looks: each cut rests on a survey finding with its searches cited, and anything the evidence cannot explain stays.
• Nothing changes until the principal approves the specific rows, and a delete of irreplaceable content gets its own yes.
• Each stage leaves its record under LIFEOS/MEMORY/WORK/{slug}/simplify/, so the next stage builds on evidence rather than on memory.

A bare "simplify X" runs Survey and then Propose, and stops at the proposal. A Survey-only request, which is how a read-only analysis calls this skill, stops at the survey.

None. This skill reads no config and needs no account or key. Each stage writes its record under LIFEOS/MEMORY/WORK/{slug}/simplify/ next to the target's ISA, if it has one; nothing else is created.

• Zero code-search hits does not mean dead. LifeOS calls a great deal of code by string: hook registrations in settings.json, launchd plists, workflow YAML, skill routing tables, spawned commands and dynamic imports. ReferenceCheck.ts --shipped-paths exists because plain path scans missed spawn and dynamic-import specifiers.
• The file can change mid-run. Memory loops and peer sessions write to the same trees. A file edited after its survey is re-read before it is touched (Trim, where a concurrent deploy-command fix was nearly reverted).

Example 1: Simplify a tool

User: "simplify LIFEOS/TOOLS/ReferenceCheck.ts"
→ Survey intent, then Propose
→ Purpose from its header and DocCheck lineage, every caller, findings per function, test baseline
→ A ranked table of cuts, each with its parity check, held for y

Example 2: Land the approved cuts

User: "y, but skip 4"
→ Apply intent
→ Rows 1–3 and 5 land as separate commits, tests show the same pass count before and after, and the measured reduction sits beside the estimate

Example 3: An always-on context file

User: "simplify CLAUDE.md"
→ Routed to Trim, which owns always-on context files and their directive-coverage gate