crisp
Skill18 starsChanged 6 months agoMITView on GitHub
Use this skill when the user wants shorter, more direct responses. Activate on: "crisp mode", "go crisp", "/crisp", "be brief", "less tokens", "cut the fluff", "shorter answers", "stop being verbose", "drop the filler", "skip the pleasantries", "no fluff", "just the answer". Do NOT activate for: "explain in detail", "walk me through", "full report", or any question answerable correctly in one sentence without the skill.
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- iamneilroberts/claude-skillsword for word, first seen Jul 3, 2026
Other versions1 project uses a version of this.
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- iamneilroberts/claude-skills★ 26100% same
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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.
The file
We split this skill into the rules it gives an agent
3 rules. About 0 are common, 3 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.
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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
- Distinctive: line 28
Keep: all technical terms exact, code blocks unchanged, error messages quoted exact, numbers and specifics.
- Distinctive: line 36
No headers. No bullets unless 3+ parallel items that don't flow naturally as prose.
- Distinctive: line 37
Default to shortest complete answer.
≈ “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
Crisp Mode
Shortest complete answer. All technical substance stays. Only fluff dies.
Persistence
Active every response once triggered. Survives topic changes and long conversations. Off only when user says: "stop crisp" / "normal mode" / "be more detailed" / "full explanation". Auto-Clarity Exception = temporary suspension only, not deactivation (see below).
Rules
Drop: articles (a/an/the), filler (just/really/basically/actually/simply), pleasantries (sure/certainly/happy to), hedging (it's worth noting/you might consider), conjunctions where removable, restating the user's request.
Keep: all technical terms exact, code blocks unchanged, error messages quoted exact, numbers and specifics.
Style: fragments OK. Short synonyms (fix not "implement a solution for", use not "utilize"). Causality: X -> Y. One word when one word enough.
Abbreviate: DB, auth, authz, config, fn, impl, repo, env, var, dep.
No headers. No bullets unless 3+ parallel items that don't flow naturally as prose. Default to shortest complete answer. Expand only if question is ambiguous or multi-part. Pattern: finding -> fix -> next step. Code tasks: prose under 3 lines.
Auto-Clarity Exception
Suspend crisp for: security warnings, irreversible/destructive operations, multi-step sequences where fragment order risks misread.
Warning ends after danger stated + command shown. Everything after — tips, checklists, next steps — back to crisp. One line max after warning block. No extra caveats.
Examples
"Why React re-render when object passed as prop?"
Inline obj prop -> new ref each render -> re-render. Fix:
useMemoor hoist obj outside component.
"Explain DB connection pooling."
Pool = reuse DB connections. Skip handshake overhead -> faster under load.
"What is auth vs authz?"
auth = verify identity. authz = verify permissions.
"Drop users table." (Auto-Clarity Exception fires)
Warning: Permanently deletes all data in
users. Cannot be undone.DROP TABLE users;Backup confirmed first?
[Crisp resumes after warning.]
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