PR Babysitter
openinterpreter/openinterpreter
Watches an open GitHub pull request until it merges, handling review comments, diagnosing CI failures and retrying flaky checks along the way.
Review a diff, design, execution path, or subsystem for unnecessary complexity and propose concrete simplifications.
Install Keep It Simple
$ npx skills add swyxio/skills --skill keep-it-simple -a claude-codeProject install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.
$ gh skill install swyxio/skills keep-it-simple --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/swyxio/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/keep-it-simple .claude/skills/keep-it-simple && 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 "keep-it-simple" agent skill from https://github.com/swyxio/skills/tree/main/keep-it-simple into .claude/skills/keep-it-simple/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "keep-it-simple", 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/swyxio/skills/tree/main/keep-it-simpleType 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 swyxio/skills --skill keep-it-simple -a codexProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.codex/skills/.
$ gh skill install swyxio/skills keep-it-simple --agent codexProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/swyxio/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .agents/skills && cp -r skills-src/keep-it-simple .agents/skills/keep-it-simple && rm -rf skills-srcUse ~/.agents/skills/ instead of .agents/skills for a personal install.
Codex skills documentation · loads skills from .agents/skills/
Install the "keep-it-simple" agent skill from https://github.com/swyxio/skills/tree/main/keep-it-simple into .agents/skills/keep-it-simple/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "keep-it-simple", 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 swyxio/skills --skill keep-it-simple -a cursorProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.cursor/skills/.
$ gh skill install swyxio/skills keep-it-simple --agent cursorProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/swyxio/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .cursor/skills && cp -r skills-src/keep-it-simple .cursor/skills/keep-it-simple && 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 "keep-it-simple" agent skill from https://github.com/swyxio/skills/tree/main/keep-it-simple into .cursor/skills/keep-it-simple/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "keep-it-simple", 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/swyxio/skills.git --path keep-it-simple--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 swyxio/skills --skill keep-it-simple -a gemini-cliProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.gemini/skills/.
$ gh skill install swyxio/skills keep-it-simple --agent gemini-cliProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/swyxio/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .gemini/skills && cp -r skills-src/keep-it-simple .gemini/skills/keep-it-simple && 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 "keep-it-simple" agent skill from https://github.com/swyxio/skills/tree/main/keep-it-simple into .gemini/skills/keep-it-simple/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "keep-it-simple", 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 swyxio/skills keep-it-simpleInstalls 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 swyxio/skills --skill keep-it-simple -a github-copilotProject install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.copilot/skills/.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/swyxio/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .github/skills && cp -r skills-src/keep-it-simple .github/skills/keep-it-simple && 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 "keep-it-simple" agent skill from https://github.com/swyxio/skills/tree/main/keep-it-simple into .github/skills/keep-it-simple/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "keep-it-simple", 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 swyxio/skills --skill keep-it-simple -a opencodeOpenCode documents no install command of its own. Project install goes to .agents/skills/; add -g for ~/.config/opencode/skills/.
$ gh skill install swyxio/skills keep-it-simple --agent opencodeProject scope by default (.agents/skills/); add --scope user for a personal install.
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/swyxio/skills.git skills-src && mkdir -p .opencode/skills && cp -r skills-src/keep-it-simple .opencode/skills/keep-it-simple && 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 "keep-it-simple" agent skill from https://github.com/swyxio/skills/tree/main/keep-it-simple into .opencode/skills/keep-it-simple/ in this project. Copy the whole folder (SKILL.md and every file beside it), keep the folder name "keep-it-simple", 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
keep-it-simple- GitHub stars
- 175
- Token cost
- ~902 tokens
- SKILL.md length
- 440 words
- Files
- 1
- Skills in repo
- 89
- Repo updated
- First seen
- Licence
- MIT
At a glance
Review a diff, design, execution path, or subsystem for unnecessary complexity and propose concrete simplifications.
- Is concerned about overengineering
- SKILL.md covers Review the requested surface, Propose fewer mechanisms and Finish proportionally
- Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md
- Excessive coordination
What it does
Keep It Simple is an agent skill from swyxio/skills. Review a diff, design, execution path, or subsystem for unnecessary complexity and propose concrete simplifications. Use during code review or independently when the user is concerned about overengineering, excessive coordination, or code that has become hard to understand or operate.
Its SKILL.md is about 900 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.
It sits in Development, covering Code review. The repository describes itself as: Agent skills for Claude Code and other AI agents. The licence is MIT.
When your agent uses it
- Is concerned about overengineering
- Excessive coordination
- Code that has become hard to understand
Example prompts
- “/keep-it-simple”
What it can do on your machine
Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 038ef34. 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.
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
Keep It Simple loads about 902 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 75 tokens; SKILL.md has 440 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
The full file from swyxio/skills at commit 038ef34, republished under its MIT licence (© swyxio). 440 words, ~902 tokens.
Download SKILL.mdSave it as
.claude/skills/keep-it-simple/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).- name
- keep-it-simple
- description
- Review a diff, design, execution path, or subsystem for unnecessary complexity and propose concrete simplifications. Use during code review or independently when the user is concerned about overengineering, excessive coordination, or code that has become hard to understand or operate.
Keep It Simple
Find the simplest implementation that meets the actual requirements. Ask what concrete requirement justifies each additional mechanism. Simplicity includes runtime behavior and operational burden, not just source length.
Review the requested surface
Establish the intended behavior, explicit constraints, and demonstrated failure modes. Distinguish these from hypothetical future needs and conventions inherited from templates or other skills. Inspect the relevant callers and execution path; do not turn a focused review into a repository cleanup.
Trace what a reader must understand and what the system must execute. Look for:
- duplicate state, validation, projections, or sources of truth;
- pass-through layers, speculative interfaces, and configuration with no real use;
- repeated remote calls, per-item bookkeeping, and unnecessarily small work units;
- independent operations serialized without a correctness reason;
- optional work coupled to user-visible completion or the critical path;
- fallback, compatibility, and recovery machinery without a named consumer or demonstrated failure it addresses.
Treat file size, module count, and test count as clues rather than targets. A cohesive large function can be simpler than several indirections. More batching code can make the overall execution simpler and cheaper.
Propose fewer mechanisms
For each useful finding, name the concrete cost and offer a specific deletion, consolidation, direct implementation, batch, or deferred operation. Explain which behavior remains equivalent and which tradeoff needs a user decision. Mark unmeasured performance claims as hypotheses.
Preserve necessary guarantees with the smallest sufficient mechanism. Consider whether a transaction, unique constraint, conditional write, or existing durable boundary can replace repeated coordination. Separate execution granularity from accountability: work can run in batches while retaining individual provenance and completion status. Distinguish reconstructible derived work from irreversible external effects before choosing retry and recovery machinery.
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Keep extra structure when it prevents a real race, isolates a volatile boundary, or makes the intended behavior easier to understand. Do not remove safeguards, error handling, or authorization checks merely to shorten code. When reviewing a performance concern, distinguish computation, remote-call latency, queue wait, and contention before choosing more concurrency or a rewrite.
Finish proportionally
In review mode, report only actionable findings: the unnecessary mechanism, its cost, the simpler alternative, and material tradeoffs. Say when no worthwhile simplification is supported. A short list or comparison table is sufficient; avoid mandatory scores, audit artifacts, or a migration program.
When implementation is requested, make the smallest coherent change within the authorized scope and verify the affected behavior with existing checks or a focused regression where needed. For performance changes, measure the relevant capacity or overhead rather than treating fewer lines or higher concurrency as proof. Do not add a framework, service, abstraction, test suite, or permanent documentation simply to complete this review.
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Files
Just SKILL.md in keep-it-simple of swyxio/skills.
Open the folder on GitHubat commit 038ef34
Compare with similar skills
Keep It Simple 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keep It Simple this skillswyxio/skills | 175 | — | ~902 | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| PR Babysitteropeninterpreter/openinterpreter | 69k | 3 repos | ~4.2k | Automated safety check: Pass | Apache-2.0 | |
| Code Review ChecklistshareAI-lab/learn-claude-code | 78k | 5 repos | ~1.1k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Backend Code Reviewlangflow-ai/langflow | 156k | — | ~3.5k | Automated safety check: Notes | MIT | |
| Understand Diff AnalysisEgonex-AI/Understand-Anything | 86k | 1 repos | ~1.4k | Automated safety check: Pass | MIT | |
| Mole Bug Patternstw93/Mole | 70k | — | ~2k | Automated safety check: Pass | GPL-3.0 |
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Questions about Keep It Simple
What does Keep It Simple do?
Review a diff, design, execution path, or subsystem for unnecessary complexity and propose concrete simplifications. Keep It Simple is an agent skill from swyxio/skills. Review a diff, design, execution path, or subsystem for unnecessary complexity and propose concrete simplifications.
When should I use Keep It Simple?
Keep It Simple fits situations like: is concerned about overengineering; excessive coordination; code that has become hard to understand.
How do I install Keep It Simple in Claude Code?
Run `npx skills add swyxio/skills --skill keep-it-simple -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (keep-it-simple in swyxio/skills) into .claude/skills/keep-it-simple in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.
How do I install Keep It Simple in Codex?
Run `npx skills add swyxio/skills --skill keep-it-simple -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (keep-it-simple in swyxio/skills) into .agents/skills/keep-it-simple in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.
Can I use Keep It Simple 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 swyxio/skills --skill keep-it-simple -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/keep-it-simple, .gemini/skills/keep-it-simple, .github/skills/keep-it-simple and .opencode/skills/keep-it-simple in your project.
What does Keep It Simple need to run?
SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Keep It Simple is instructions for the agent only.
Does Keep It Simple 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 Keep It Simple 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 Keep It Simple use?
Keep It Simple is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.
How many tokens does Keep It Simple use?
About 902 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.6k 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 Keep It Simple?
Skills that share tags, products or a category with Keep It Simple: PR Babysitter (openinterpreter/openinterpreter, 69k stars), Code Review Checklist (shareAI-lab/learn-claude-code, 78k stars), Backend Code Review (langflow-ai/langflow, 156k stars) and Understand Diff Analysis (Egonex-AI/Understand-Anything, 86k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.
Who maintains Keep It Simple?
swyxio (a GitHub user) maintains it in swyxio/skills, which has 175 GitHub stars. The repository holds 89 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 5, 2026.
Source: swyxio/skills on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.