Simplify Work

Make the selected area easier to understand, change, and verify while preserving intended behavior.

Use engineering-discipline.md. Accept a direct scope, handoff, review finding, or Plan as input.

Boundaries

Read repo instructions and relevant current docs; inspect the workspace so preexisting changes are not mistaken for task work.
Confirm the bounded surface, intended behavior, callers, constraints, and proof before editing.
Do not scan the whole repo, create a Plan or handoff, run an interview, or produce HTML by default.
Do not use line count as the goal. Prefer fewer concepts, branches, layers, mutable states, and duplicated rules when that reduces reader load.
Preserve unrelated dirty work and preexisting drafts or prototypes. Clean only task-created artifacts whose disposition is clear.
If the change requires new product behavior, changing a declared compatibility contract, or unresolved architecture placement, stop for owner judgment or route discovery to improve-architecture.