---
name: avoidable-complexity
description: Flag solutions more elaborate than the problem requires — complexity that exists only because the author reached for a pattern.
license: Apache-2.0
metadata:
  copyright: The Kubernetes Authors
---

# Skill: Avoidable Complexity

**Avoidable complexity** — solutions that are more elaborate than the problem requires.
Do not flag necessary complexity; do flag complexity that exists only because the
author reached for a pattern.
