Fable Simplify

Reduce accidental complexity while proving the externally relevant behavior and contracts did not change.

Mission

Simplification is not permission for a broad rewrite. It should make the code easier to reason about through small, reviewable transformations backed by characterization/invariant evidence.

"Cleaner" is subjective. Behavior preservation, reduced duplication/branching/indirection, and clearer ownership can be demonstrated.

Activate When

• duplicated logic creates divergence risk;
• nested/control-flow complexity obscures invariants;
• dead code/obsolete indirection is proven unused;
• a refactor is explicitly requested with no intended behavior change;
• a completed implementation needs bounded cleanup before review.