Reduce Nesting
Flatten deeply nested conditionals into readable, early-return code.
Install
npx skills add Archive228/loopkit --skill reduce-nesting -g -a claude-code -y- Repository
- Archive228/loopkit756
- Category
- Engineering
- Updated
- 4mo ago
- License
- MIT
- Context cost
- Lightabout 147 tokens
- Runs scripts
- No, instructions only
What it does
Flatten deeply nested conditionals into readable, early-return code. Use on any function with 3+ levels of indentation.
Reduce Nesting
Deep nesting hides bugs in the branches you didn't read.
- Guard clauses, handle the invalid/edge cases first and return early. The happy path drops to the left margin.
- Invert conditions,
if (!valid) return;instead of wrapping the whole body inif (valid) {...}. - Extract, a nested block doing one thing becomes a named function.
- Replace flag-then-branch, return the result directly instead of setting a variable to return later. Target: no function deeper than 2-3 levels. If you still need more, the function is doing too much, split it.
