hatchet
Skill1 starsChanged 5 months agoMITView on GitHub
Instantly trim and tighten any content — emails, social posts, bullet points, paragraphs, or any text — while preserving the original meaning. Trigger immediately whenever the user types /hatchet, asks to "cut this down", "make this shorter", "trim this", "tighten this up", or pastes content with a request to reduce length. Don't ask clarifying questions — just cut and return the result.
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- analystacademy/claude-skillsword for word, first seen May 2, 2026
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The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
10 rules. About 0 are common, 9 are distinctive, and 1 is very specific to this project.
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Many files like this have a rule of this kind.
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Distinctive · estimate
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
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Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
- Common
- Distinctive
- Very specific
- Very specific: line 12
When the user invokes /hatchet (or any variation like "trim this", "cut this down"):
- Distinctive: line 14
Read the content they've provided
- Distinctive: line 18
No preamble. No "Here's your trimmed version:".
- Distinctive: line 23
Cut throat-clearing: Delete any opening that exists just to warm up ("As you know...", "I hope this finds you well", "In today's fast-paced …
- Distinctive: line 24
Collapse redundancy: If two sentences say the same thing, keep the better one
- Distinctive: line 27
Compress lists: If bullets overlap, merge them
- Distinctive: line 37
If they gave you an email, return an email (no subject line unless one was included)
- Distinctive: line 38
If they gave you bullet points, return bullet points
- Distinctive: line 39
If they gave you a paragraph, return a paragraph
- Distinctive: line 40
If they gave you a social post, return a social post
≈ “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
Hatchet
Cut content down. Keep the meaning. Remove the rest.
How to use
When the user invokes /hatchet (or any variation like "trim this", "cut this down"):
- Read the content they've provided
- Cut it — ruthlessly but intelligently
- Return only the trimmed version, nothing else
No preamble. No "Here's your trimmed version:". No explanation unless they ask for one. Just the content.
Cutting rules
- Remove filler: "I wanted to reach out to let you know that..." → "Just a heads up:"
- Cut throat-clearing: Delete any opening that exists just to warm up ("As you know...", "I hope this finds you well", "In today's fast-paced world...")
- Collapse redundancy: If two sentences say the same thing, keep the better one
- Prefer active voice: "The report was submitted by Sarah" → "Sarah submitted the report"
- Shrink hedges where safe: "It might potentially be worth considering" → "Consider"
- Compress lists: If bullets overlap, merge them
- Kill adverbs that add nothing: "very unique", "absolutely essential", "totally destroy"
Target length
Aim for roughly 50% of the original as a default. If the content is already tight, don't over-cut — just clean it up. If it's very bloated, go harder.
Format
Match the format of the input:
- If they gave you an email, return an email (no subject line unless one was included)
- If they gave you bullet points, return bullet points
- If they gave you a paragraph, return a paragraph
- If they gave you a social post, return a social post
Tone
Preserve the original voice and tone — don't make a casual message sound corporate, or a formal email sound breezy. Just make it shorter.
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