guide-complexity
Skill14 starsChanged 4 days agoMITView on GitHub
Use when code is written or changed that branches heavily, in any language: if/else or switch chains, type-check cascades, kind fields compared to strings, flag parameters, deep nesting. Produces the branching shaped before it lands, and the bar it must meet at merge. Not for auditing or reworking existing code (complexity-rework).
1 other project uses a version of this.
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- Ovich/swarmstormword for word, first seen Nov 1, 2026
Other versions1 project uses a version of this.
Word for word · 1
- Ovich/swarmstorm★ 14100% same
Edited · 0
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Wrote their own version · 0
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How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.
In this repository34 other files it gives its agents.
- AGENTS.mdAGENTS.md
- brainstormSkill
- brainswarmSkill
- interviewSkill
- whiteboard-defenseSkill
- complexity-reworkSkill
- deepen-moduleSkill
- dependency-graphSkill
- simplify-reworkSkill
- simplifySkill
- write-diagramsSkill
- aiviewSkill
- swarm-boardSkill
- execute-planSkill
- long-horizonSkill
- orchestrate-planSkill
- guide-createSkill
- guide-deepen-moduleSkill
- helpSkill
- next-stepSkill
- orchestrateSkill
- cold-readSkill
- write-planSkill
- roadmapSkill
- technical-writingSkill
- write-conventionsSkill
- pr-reviewSkill
- recurring-review-findingsSkill
- swarmSkill
- design-prototypeSkill
- point-atSkill
- validate-deliverySkill
- verification-skill-createSkill
- create-workbenchSkill
The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
5 rules. About 0 are common, 5 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.
≈0
Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
≈5
Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
0
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Distinctive: line 12
Before writing the branch, name what varies: the kinds, the cases.
- Distinctive: line 13
Put each case behind one shape: a table, a map of handlers, a type per kind, one function per flag value.
- Distinctive: line 14
Keep each function one level of decision.
- Distinctive: line 19
No new chain of more than three conditions on the same value.
- Distinctive: line 20
No kind compared to strings in more than one place.
≈ “Common” is an estimate: at least 1 in 5 of the 350,495 skill files we read have a rule of the same kind, not the same words. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
Files
Guide: complexity
Applies to any code that adds or grows branching: a chain of conditions, a dispatch on a kind, a flag that changes what a function does, nesting past two levels.
Shaping step
- Before writing the branch, name what varies: the kinds, the cases.
- Put each case behind one shape: a table, a map of handlers, a type per kind, one function per flag value.
- Keep each function one level of decision; extract the rest.
- The branching already exists and is to be reworked: run the
complexity-reworkskill.
Ok at merge
- No new chain of more than three conditions on the same value.
- No kind compared to strings in more than one place; no boolean flag parameter.
- Nesting at most two levels in the changed code.
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