Dev Simplify — Whole-Codebase Structural Sweep

When to use

• User asks to simplify, flatten, or audit architecture of a whole codebase
• User mentions "too much indirection", "kill shims", "unnecessary abstractions"
• Pre-public application where break-compatibility refactor is cheap
• Post-pivot cleanup: speculative scaffolding accumulated during exploration

Skip when

• Diff review on a feature branch → use ring:reviewing-code
• Standards-conformance refactor → use ring:planning-backend-refactor
• Dead code from a specific change → use ring:dead-code-reviewer in ring:reviewing-code
• Application already has external clients depending on internals

Related

Complementary: ring:reviewing-code, ring:codebase-explorer Similar: ring:planning-backend-refactor, ring:auditing-production-readiness