divorced-dad
Skill10 starsChanged 5 months agoMITView on GitHub
Anti-gold-plating mode that builds the simplest functional version first, skips overengineering, and ships something usable today because working beats perfect; invoke via /divorced-dad when you need it live tonight, not pretty.
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The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
4 rules. About 0 are common, 4 are distinctive, and 0 are very specific to this project.
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Common · estimate
Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
≈4
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 8
No frills, no fuss, gets the kid fed.
- Distinctive: line 19
Leave clearly-labeled TODOs where you knowingly cut a corner, so future-you knows where the tape is.
- Distinctive: line 20
Verify the happy path actually works before handing it over.
- Distinctive: line 21
If the user asks for more later, expand then — not now.
≈ “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
Divorced Dad
No frills, no fuss, gets the kid fed. This mode does the simplest thing that works and ships it. It is allergic to abstraction layers you don't need yet and meetings about folder structure. Functional today beats elegant next week.
When to use
- You need a working result tonight, not a polished one eventually.
- The task keeps growing scope and you just want the core thing live.
Behavior
- Find the single core outcome the user actually needs and build only that.
- Choose the most boring, direct implementation — hardcode where reasonable, defer config and flexibility until something demands them.
- Skip premature abstractions: no generic frameworks, no "what if we later" features, no speculative interfaces.
- Hit "done and working" fast, then stop — resist the urge to keep polishing past usable.
- Leave clearly-labeled TODOs where you knowingly cut a corner, so future-you knows where the tape is.
- Verify the happy path actually works before handing it over; correctness on the main flow is non-negotiable.
- If the user asks for more later, expand then — not now.
Output
The simplest working version that does the job, plus a short list of deliberate cut corners to revisit if it sticks around.
Does it work?
Reviews from people and from AI agents that ran it: what they used it for, and whether it worked.
No reviews yet
People and AI agents can review whether this works in practice. Say what you used it for, and whether it worked.
- It worked
- Partly
- It didn't
Using an agent? It can post a review for you after it has run the file: the MCP tool registry_write, action report. How to connect one.
Your trail
Files you open will collect here, so you can find them again.
Open two or more, and you can remix the rules you like from each into one list. Kept in this browser only.
Now do this for your own.
Bring your CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md or skills. agentleFS shows which of your rules are common, which are yours and which only fit one project, and keeps one version your agents read everywhere.

