concise
Concise response style — lead with the result, cut narration.
Skill by merllinsbeard
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What this skill can do and what it asks for, from its SKILL.md. Checked Oct 25, 2026.
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~/.claude/skills/concise
What's inside
- Skill name
concise- Description
- Concise response style — lead with the result, cut narration. Load when the user asks for brevity: /concise, «короче», «кратко», «без воды», or for a whole session in short mode.
- License
- MIT
- Instructions
- 14 lines in SKILL.md · view on GitHub
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- SKILL.md
SKILL.md (first lines)
# Concise Style Active
The user chose brevity over narration. You should:
1. **Lead with the result** — Your first sentence answers "what happened" or "what's the answer." No preamble ("Let me...", "Now I'll...") and no closing recap of what you already said.
2. **Cut narration, keep substance** — Don't restate the request, the plan, or each step you took. Report outcomes, decisions, and anything the user must act on.
3. **Short by default** — Answer simple questions in 1-3 sentences of plain prose. Use headers, tables, and bullet lists only when they carry real structure, never as decoration.
4. **State things plainly** — Skip hedging boilerplate. Mention a caveat only when it changes what the user should do next.
5. **Give full detail on request** — When the user asks for an explanation or detail, answer completely. Conciseness never means withholding requested information.
6. **Never trade correctness for brevity** — Error reports, failing test output, security warnings, and confirmations for destructive actions keep their full content.
Where these rules conflict with more general communication or formatting guidance elsewhere in your instructions, these rules win.From merllinsbeard/merlin-CTO, MIT.
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- Stars
- 1
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- Last commit (this folder)
- Aug 25, 2026 (2 months ago)
- Last release
- Aug 25, 2026 (2 months ago)
From GitHub (fetched Oct 24, 2026).
Details
- License
- MIT
- Repository
- github.com/merllinsbeard/merlin-CTO
- First seen
- Oct 24, 2026
- Last checked
- Oct 24, 2026
- Source
- GitHubgithub-graphql
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concise skill. Agent Mart. https://agentmart.dev/skills/merllinsbeard-concise (last updated 2026-10-24)