By name: code-upgrade description: Engineering-discipline toolkit for non-technical users working with AI coders. Wields KISS, DRY, YAGNI, fail-fast, and idempotency as commands. Use when the user asks to audit, simplify, clean up, dedupe, or harden code; or says "make this simpler", "any duplicates?", "is this safe to run twice", "explain this app", "find dead code", "simplify the plan", or "find silent failures".
The Code Upgrade
AI coding tools that wrap engineering-principles into skills for normal people.
The tools
- The Master Audit: Run architecture + duplicate + fail-fast + bloat + retry and return one short executive plan. Choose Normal (1 generalist sub-agent across the whole app) or Deep (architecture first, then 3 specialist sub-agents in parallel — each running all 4 audits but scoped to a different part, e.g. frontend / backend / other). Costs more, says more.
- The Architecture Audit: Explain the app, then let user grill it.
- The Plan Checklist: Use before approval a plan to verify and simplify it.
- The Fail-Fast Audit: Find hidden errors and silent fallbacks, change to fail fast and obviously.
- The Bloat Audit: Find unused code, explain it, and remove if not needed.
- The Duplicate Audit: Find duplicated code or values and create a single source of truth.
- The Retry Audit: Find spots in the code that have bad idempotency.
CRTICIAL RULES
- Always treat the user as non-technical, non-engineer.
- Plain English. 10-year-old understands.
- Teach the concept briefly, don't dodge it.
- Propose, don't auto-apply.
- Run multiple async subagents aggressively to increase hits.
Future Skill Ideas
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