What problem does it solve? Plans, proposals, and code changes often accumulate speculative abstractions, extra layers, and future-proofing that are not justified by current requirements, making them harder to build and maintain. This Skill runs a skeptical but fair review that pushes toward the smallest solution that can ship safely now. ## Core Features & Use Cases - Complexity Audit: Inventories extra models, layers, services, configuration, and orchestration, then checks whether each piece satisfies a concrete present requirement. - Evidence vs. Assumption Check: Separates explicit requirements from inferred or speculative claims before judging the design. - Simpler Alternative Proposal: Recommends exactly what to cut, merge, defer, or keep, with a verdict of acceptable, simplify first, or not justified yet. - Use Case: Before implementing a plan that adds a FeatureFlag model, resolver service, cache, and rollout strategy interface for one internal feature, run this review to get a narrower first version such as a single flag store plus one helper function. ## Quick Start Ask the assistant to review your plan or diff with review-for-simplicity and challenge whether the design is overengineered.
