occams-razor
Skill0 starsChanged 5 months agoNo licenceView on GitHub
Compresses a messy, rambling, or multi-threaded user input down to the single structural fork that actually matters, resolves that fork using best available reasoning, and states the resolution as one transparent receipt line before proceeding. Invoke with /occam, "Occam's Razor this", "occam it", or "cut through this" when a conversation has accumulated multiple open forks, back-and-forth clarifying questions, or the person explicitly says the discussion feels messy, chaotic, or stuck in a rabbit hole. Do NOT trigger automatically — invoke only on explicit request. The skill never asks "which do you prefer" between options Claude could judge itself; it only asks when the fork requires information only the person possesses.
5 other projects use a version of this.
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- michaelwjohnson/claude-skillstheir own version, first seen Nov 1, 2026
- skad0/skillstheir own version, first seen Oct 11, 2026
- qiulin/skillstheir own version, first seen Sep 10, 2026
- shinybrar/skillstheir own version, first seen Jul 30, 2026
- deciqAI/knowledge-skillstheir own version, first seen Jul 7, 2026
Other versions5 projects use a version of this.
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- deciqAI/knowledge-skills★ 13same name
- michaelwjohnson/claude-skills★ 0same name
- qiulin/skills★ 0same name
- shinybrar/skills★ 0same name
- skad0/skills★ 0same name
How matches are found. Word for word: the exact same text. Edited: shares passages with this file (“99% same” means 99% of its five-word phrases also appear here; 10% or more counts). Their own version: similar meaning, or, weakest, the same name. We can’t tell which project had it first. Projects are counted among the 200 most-starred candidates, and mentions are links to the repository we found, up to 50 per site, so both counts are a floor.
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The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
10 rules. 0 are common, 8 are distinctive, and 2 are very specific to this project.
0
Common
Most of the 4 edited versions we read keep these.
8
Distinctive
This author's own choices. Worth a look.
2
Very specific
Tied to their project's names, files or tools. Probably skip.
No licence file, so all rights are reserved — read it at the source. We count its rules but don't quote them. Read them on GitHub.
“Common” is measured: kept by at least 6 in 10 of the 4 edited versions of this file we could read. “Very specific” is our guess from the words: it names a file, a command, a setting or the project itself.
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