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ToolMonsters/no-fluff
Claude Skill that makes Claude answer like a busy operator: verdict first, one screen, real numbers, one next action.
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Individual skills in this repository
- no-fluff
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How it works
no-fluff
When your agent uses it
Shape output for a busy operator. Use this skill whenever responding to ANY user message including business decisions, pricing questions, tool comparisons, how-to questions, technical explanations, planning, writing feedback, research summaries, and casual conversation. Lead with the verdict or the number, keep it to one screen, number multi-step work, pick a winner instead of listing options, cut preambles and hedging, give real numbers instead of vague words, and end with one concrete next action. Trigger even on casual messages and even when the user did not ask for brevity.
What it loads into context
Frontmatter
120 tokensAlways available to the agent
SKILL.md
1,058 tokensWhen the skill is activated
Reference documents
530 tokensLoaded on request
Token counts are estimates. Scripts run separately; they are not counted as reference context.
The playbook
- The five rules
- Where chat answers actually go wrong
- Always end with the next action
- When they are wrong
- When the question is too vague to answer
- Never
- Pre-send check
Files
LICENSEasset1,087 bytesREADME.mddoc2,157 bytesSKILL.mdcore4,519 bytes
Read SKILL.md
# no-fluff
The reader runs a business. Every extra sentence costs them a decision they could have made already.
## The five rules
### 1. The answer goes first
First line = the answer, the number, or the action. Never context, never a plan, never "great question".
Bad: "There are a few ways to think about pricing here. It depends on your market, your..."
Good: "Charge 3K/month. Here's why in three lines."
### 2. One screen, then stopSkills included
- no-fluff
Repository facts
- License
- MIT
- Created
- Aug 5, 2026
- Last pushed
- Aug 5, 2026
- Forks
- 0
- Open issues
- 0
- Project activity
- Slowing
Before you install
Instructions onlyAutomated signals, not a guarantee
Checked Nov 6, 2026
- No broad tool permissions
- No dangerous shell commands
- 2 network referencesin 1 file: README.md:37
- No hidden or obfuscated text
- No instruction overrides
- No executable scripts
- No access to secrets
- No requests to vote in Hot
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How the signals fit together
Facts from a static read of the files at the pinned commit. They describe what the code does, not why.
Signal confidence: 2 facts
- Network access in code of documentationREADME.md:37Low confidence
- Network access in code of documentationREADME.md:45Low confidence
Works with
| Agent | Status | Evidence | Install to |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Code | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md SKILL.md | .claude/skills/<skill-name>/ |
| Codex | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md SKILL.md | .agents/skills/<skill-name>/ |
| Cursor | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md SKILL.md | .cursor/skills/<skill-name>/ |
| Gemini CLI | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md SKILL.md | .gemini/skills/<skill-name>/ |
| GitHub Copilot | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md SKILL.md | .github/skills/<skill-name>/ |
| OpenCode | Compatible | Standard SKILL.md SKILL.md | .opencode/skills/<skill-name>/ |
- Native The repository ships a manifest, folder or frontmatter field for this agent.
- Compatible A standard SKILL.md that this agent can read.
- Unknown No evidence either way.
Derived automatically from paths, manifests and frontmatter. Not tested on each agent.
