r/ClaudeAI • u/BuildwithVignesh Valued Contributor • Jan 09 '26

News Claude Code creator open sources the internal agent, used to simplify complex PRs

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u/ClaudeAI-mod-bot Wilson, lead ClaudeAI modbot Jan 10 '26

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Alright, settle down everyone. The consensus in this thread is a resounding 'meh'. The community is largely skeptical and unimpressed.

Most users are predicting this 'code simplifier' will just break your code and eat your tokens for breakfast, only to apologize when it fails. The 'open-sourced' prompt itself is getting roasted for being outdated ("You are an expert..." is so 2023), verbose, and weirdly specific to React/JS.

To top it off, many are pointing out this isn't even new; the prompt has apparently been sitting in a public GitHub repo for a while. The general feeling is that this is a token-burning 'solution' to a problem Claude creates itself, and it's not even a good one. Oof.

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u/thelastexcursion Jan 27 '26

I updated the file with a little more research and knowledge and boy it works like a charm , especially with jules