/simplify
A Claude Code slash command, read out of the shipped bundle. No mined inventory carries it: everything below comes from what this site has written about it.
Skill. Review the changed code for cleanup opportunities and apply the fixes. Four review agents run in parallel, covering reuse of existing helpers, simplification, efficiency, and whether the change is at the right level of abstraction. The review doesn't look for correctness bugs. Use /code-review to find bugs. Pass a path or PR reference to review a specific target
Anthropic's own wording. Read off Commands, captured 2026-09-28.
In the changelogs
9Releases whose published page names /simplify.
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v2.1.290
Code review suggestion at commit time now needs a setting
The code review part of the suggestion shown before a commit now appears only when includeCodeReviewSuggestion is true
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v2.1.257
PR-prep commit-checklist suggestion no longer gated by a top-level enable check
The pre-commit reminder suggesting /verify, /simplify or code review no longer needs a top-level gate to pass.
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v2.1.242
Much of this release's diff is re-bundling, not behaviour
Most of this release's changed code is the build system moving modules, not features changing.
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v2.1.232
Two review-workflow config flags dropped
Two server-side switches that steered review behaviour are gone, so reviews no longer vary by remote config.
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v2.1.223
Code-review and /simplify prompt modules restructured
The code-review and /simplify prompts moved into new modules with no change to their wording.
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v2.1.222
Code-review, /simplify and batch orchestration prompts moved between modules
Three prompt texts moved between files with their wording intact, so nothing changes for you.
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v2.1.220
Prompt text for /code-review, /simplify, skill-saving and credential paths is byte-identical
Code review, simplify and skill-saving instructions are unchanged despite looking rewritten in the bundle.
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v2.1.215
/code-reviewand/simplifySkip Redundant Model Invocationfound in this entry's text
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v2.1.63
/simplify Command
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First cited
1The earliest release whose published evidence quoted /simplify was v2.1.232, 13 Aug 2026. That is the oldest release this project wrote about it, so it is a floor on the name's age and not the release that introduced it. It is not a presence reading: which builds carried the name is the table below.
Presence across releases
0The miner has never read a build containing this name. It is here because a changelog entry of ours names it, which is evidence that it existed and not evidence of which releases carried it. The inventory starts at v2.1.138 and everything older than that was never mined.
Read out of the published npm bundle release by release, and out of Anthropic's own documentation as this site captured it. Nothing on this page is a description anybody here wrote about what the slash command does. All slash commands.