/ce-simplify-code

/ce-simplify-code — “Refine recently changed code for reuse, quality, and efficiency while preserving behavior.” Step 4 of the loop, run on freshly-written code before review: reduce complexity, extract reuse, tighten interfaces — all behavior-preserving. Running it before ce-code-review means reviewers spend their budget on substance, not on cleanups the author could have made.

It implements stage-review (the quality side) and is a direct counterpart to Addy’s addy-code-simplification.

Cross-framework equivalents

ce-simplify-code ↔ addy-code-simplification (equivalent_to) — both reduce complexity while preserving exact behavior. Compound Engineering’s twist is placement: a dedicated loop step between writing and review, feeding cleaner code into the persona fan-out.

See Also

• addy-code-simplification — the direct counterpart (Chesterton’s Fence, Rule of 500).
• ce-code-review — the next loop step, which reviews the simplified code.
• stage-review — the canonical stage this implements.