# Find Simplifications

Use when asked to find or plan Cherry Studio cleanup, simplification, refactoring...

- Repository: https://github.com/CherryHQ/cherry-studio (53164 stars)
- Category: AI and agents
- License: AGPL-3.0
- Last updated: 2026-11-01
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add CherryHQ/cherry-studio --skill find-simplifications -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add CherryHQ/cherry-studio --skill find-simplifications -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add CherryHQ/cherry-studio --skill find-simplifications -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add CherryHQ/cherry-studio --skill find-simplifications -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

Use when asked to find or plan Cherry Studio cleanup, simplification, refactoring, dead-code removal, duplicated state removal, unnecessary APIs, speculative generality, or library replacements, especially when the result should become evidence-backed proposed Agent Notes.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# Find Simplifications

This skill finds a few strong candidates, not a deletion quota. Diagnosis and proposal work do not authorize implementation.

## Establish context

Read root instructions, relevant architecture/reference docs, and active Agent Notes. Run `pnpm change:scope --base <verified-ref>` when auditing a branch. When the user requests broad coverage, divide renderer, data systems, IPC, lifecycle services, Agent/runtime, packages/scripts, and test infrastructure into disjoint surveys.

## Evidence bar

A strong candidate has concrete cost and production evidence:

- no legitimate production consumer;
- tests or docs are the only consumers of a non-load-bearing behavior;
- two stores, caches, events, or representations mirror one authoritative fact;
- a generic API exists for one internal consumer;
- lifecycle/disposal machinery duplicates one owner or transition;
- a maintained dependency or platform API deletes implementation and dedicated tests with less residual glue;
- speculative configurability or fallback behavior has no current product owner.

Search exact symbols, wire names, config keys, paths, dynamic registration, tests, docs, and Agent Notes. A call site proves pressure, not that the API belongs at that boundary. Reject a candidate when it removes supported behavior, violates documented ownership, or merely relocates the same complexity.

## Output

Small local improvements may be reported inline. A durable removal or redesign becomes one proposed `simplification` note through the `agent-notes` workflow, including current consumers, exact removal, strongest counterargument, observable ACs, risks, and verification owners. Do not create a duplicate note for an existing owner.

Report surveyed areas, evidence-backed candidates, rejected candidates worth preserving, deliberate exclusions, and checks actually run.