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reduce-cognitive-complexity

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Refactor functions and methods to reduce cognitive complexity — the mental effort it takes to read and follow a piece of code's control flow. Use this skill whenever refactoring code for readability, responding to a linter or code-review flag about complexity or nesting, breaking apart a function that has accumulated too many branches or loops, or when the user describes code as hard to follow, too nested, or spaghetti, or asks to clean up, simplify, or refactor a function. Covers extracting complex conditions into named functions, breaking large functions down by responsibility, replacing deep nesting with early returns, and replacing long branch chains with lookup tables.

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