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A skill your agent uses when the user wants to systematically fix AI code slop — duplicated logic, over-engineering, silent error swallowing, convention drift, cargo-cult patterns, and other…
Install Anneal
$ npx skills add av/mi --skill anneal -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install av/mi anneal --agent claude-codeProject scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/av/mi.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/anneal .claude/skills/anneal && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.
Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/
Install the "anneal" agent skill from https://github.com/av/mi/tree/master/.agents/skills/anneal into .claude/skills/anneal/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "anneal", then confirm the skill loads.Claude Code copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$skill-installer install https://github.com/av/mi/tree/master/.agents/skills/annealType this inside Codex. $skill-installer <name> installs a curated skill from openai/skills. The installer writes to $CODEX_HOME/skills (default ~/.codex/skills). Restart Codex if the skill does not show up.
$ npx skills add av/mi --skill anneal -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install av/mi anneal --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/av/mi.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/anneal .agents/skills/anneal && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "anneal" agent skill from https://github.com/av/mi/tree/master/.agents/skills/anneal into .agents/skills/anneal/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "anneal", then confirm the skill loads.Codex copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add av/mi --skill anneal -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install av/mi anneal --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/av/mi.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/anneal .cursor/skills/anneal && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.cursor/skills/ instead of .cursor/skills for a personal install.
Cursor skills documentation · loads skills from .cursor/skills/, .agents/skills/, .claude/skills/, .codex/skills/
Install the "anneal" agent skill from https://github.com/av/mi/tree/master/.agents/skills/anneal into .cursor/skills/anneal/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "anneal", then confirm the skill loads.Cursor copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gemini skills install https://github.com/av/mi.git --path .agents/skills/anneal--scope user (default) or --scope workspace; --path is the subfolder of the repo that holds the skill; --consent skips the security confirmation prompt.
$ npx skills add av/mi --skill anneal -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install av/mi anneal --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/av/mi.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/anneal .gemini/skills/anneal && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.gemini/skills/ instead of .gemini/skills for a personal install, then run /skills reload.
Gemini CLI skills documentation · loads skills from .gemini/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "anneal" agent skill from https://github.com/av/mi/tree/master/.agents/skills/anneal into .gemini/skills/anneal/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "anneal", then confirm the skill loads.Gemini CLI copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ gh skill install av/mi annealInstalls for Copilot at project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Preview a skill first with gh skill preview. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).
$ npx skills add av/mi --skill anneal -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/av/mi.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/anneal .github/skills/anneal && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.copilot/skills/ instead of .github/skills for a personal install. Commit .github/skills so cloud agent and code review can use it.
GitHub Copilot skills documentation · loads skills from .github/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "anneal" agent skill from https://github.com/av/mi/tree/master/.agents/skills/anneal into .github/skills/anneal/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "anneal", then confirm the skill loads.GitHub Copilot copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
$ npx skills add av/mi --skill anneal -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install av/mi anneal --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/av/mi.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/.agents/skills/anneal .opencode/skills/anneal && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.config/opencode/skills/ instead of .opencode/skills for a personal install.
OpenCode skills documentation · loads skills from .opencode/skills/, .claude/skills/, .agents/skills/
Install the "anneal" agent skill from https://github.com/av/mi/tree/master/.agents/skills/anneal into .opencode/skills/anneal/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "anneal", then confirm the skill loads.OpenCode copies the folder itself, the same result as the manual copy. Check what it changed before you commit it.
Facts
- Skill name
anneal- GitHub stars
- 102
- Token cost
- ~3.8k tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 1,890 words
- Files
- 2
- Skills in repo
- 21
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- None found
At a glance
A skill your agent uses when the user wants to systematically fix AI code slop — duplicated logic, over-engineering, silent error swallowing, convention drift, cargo-cult patterns, and other…
- Works in 10 steps: Duplication Instead of Reuse → Over-Engineering → Silent Error Swallowing → …
- The user wants to systematically fix AI code slop — duplicated logic
- SKILL.md covers Your Role, The Iron Law, Inputs and The Slop Catalog, plus 8 more sections
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
What it does
Anneal is an agent skill from av/mi. Use when the user wants to systematically fix AI code slop — duplicated logic, over-engineering, silent error swallowing, convention drift, cargo-cult patterns, and other LLM-introduced architectural decay — over a specified duration
Its SKILL.md is about 3.8k tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. The skill folder holds 1 other file (for example `README.md`).
It sits in Development, covering Code simplification. The repository describes itself as: self-extending sandboxed agentic harness. a loop, two tools and an llm.
When your agent uses it
- The user wants to systematically fix AI code slop — duplicated logic
- Over-engineering
- Silent error swallowing
- Convention drift
Example prompts
- “/anneal”
Workflow steps
10 steps, taken from the step headings in SKILL.md.
- Duplication Instead of Reuse
- Over-Engineering
- Silent Error Swallowing
- Convention Blindness
- Plausible-but-Wrong Logic
- Hallucinated APIs
- Cargo-Cult Patterns
- Verbosity Inflation
- Modular Mirage
- Tautological Tests
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 2bf50c9. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.
Tool permissions
Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.
From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.
Runs code
No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md (its code samples are markdown and dot).
From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.
Network
No URLs in SKILL.md.
From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.
Credentials
Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.
From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.
Context cost
Anneal loads about 3.8k tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 60 tokens; SKILL.md has 1,890 words of instructions outside code blocks.
Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.
Safety
Auto-check passed
The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.
Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.
SKILL.md
Without a licence we can't republish the file, so here is its outline and opening line. It has 1,890 words (~3,829 tokens).
“Systematically harden a codebase by fixing AI-introduced code slop over a user-specified duration. The clock decides when work stops, not you.”
- name
- anneal
Files
SKILL.md and 1 other file in .agents/skills/anneal of av/mi.
- SKILL.md
- README.md
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 2bf50c9
Compare with similar skills
Anneal next to the 5 skills that share the most tags, products or categories with it. Stars are the repository's; “used in” counts other GitHub owners with a copy.
| Skill | Stars | Used in | Tokens | Auto-check | Licence | Repo updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anneal this skillav/mi | 102 | — | ~3.8k | Automated safety check: Pass | None | |
| PonytailDavidObando/gsharp | 565 | 8 repos | ~1.7k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Ponytail Reviewkortix-ai/suna | 20k | 4 repos | ~593 | Automated safety check: Pass | Custom licence | |
| Ponytail Lazy Developer ModeDietrichGebert/ponytail | 158k | — | ~871 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Code Simplification for ego-litecitrolabs/ego-lite | 17k | — | ~1.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Refactor Pass for Simplicitystar-history/star-history | 9.6k | 1 repos | ~168 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT |
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Makes the agent pick the laziest solution that works: skip unneeded work, reuse what exists, prefer the standard library and platform features, and keep diffs small.
Code Simplification for ego-lite
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Finds and implements evidence-backed simplifications in the ego-lite repository, such as dead code, duplicated state and speculative abstractions, without hiding behavior changes.
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Reviews a diff only for unnecessary complexity and lists what to delete or shrink, one numbered line per finding with the location, the cut and its replacement.
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Questions about Anneal
What does Anneal do?
A skill your agent uses when the user wants to systematically fix AI code slop — duplicated logic, over-engineering, silent error swallowing, convention drift, cargo-cult patterns, and other…. Anneal is an agent skill from av/mi.
When should I use Anneal?
Anneal fits situations like: the user wants to systematically fix AI code slop — duplicated logic; over-engineering; silent error swallowing; convention drift.
How do I install Anneal in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add av/mi --skill anneal -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/anneal in av/mi) into .claude/skills/anneal in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Anneal in Codex?
Run `npx skills add av/mi --skill anneal -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (.agents/skills/anneal in av/mi) into .agents/skills/anneal in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Anneal in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?
Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add av/mi --skill anneal -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/anneal, .gemini/skills/anneal, .github/skills/anneal and .opencode/skills/anneal in your project.
What does Anneal need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Anneal is instructions for the agent only.
Does Anneal access the network?
SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.
Is Anneal safe to install?
Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.
What licence does Anneal use?
No licence was found for Anneal or its repository. Without one, default copyright applies: ask the author before reusing or redistributing it.
How many tokens does Anneal use?
About 3.8k tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 15k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.
What are the alternatives to Anneal?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Anneal: Ponytail (DavidObando/gsharp, 565 stars), Ponytail Review (kortix-ai/suna, 20k stars), Ponytail Lazy Developer Mode (DietrichGebert/ponytail, 158k stars) and Code Simplification for ego-lite (citrolabs/ego-lite, 17k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Anneal?
av (a GitHub user) maintains it in av/mi, which has 102 GitHub stars. The repository holds 21 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on September 26, 2026.
Source: av/mi on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.