Complexity Critique

A user-invoked gate skill: forces any specific proposed change — refactor, feature add to existing code, technical-debt cleanup, or a should-we-build-this question with no existing code yet — through a deletion-first design pass before the change is implemented.

Overview

More code begets more code. Every change is an opportunity to ask not "how do I add this" but "what's the smallest end state that solves this, and what can I delete (or never add) in the process?". This skill turns that question into three mechanical checks before the change is committed to.

Core question: What does the codebase look like after the change? — not what's the smallest change.