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Related skills principle-laziness-protocol Apply when refactoring, evaluating diff size, or tempted to add abstractions, layers, or signal threading. Bias toward deletion and the smallest change that solves the problem.
4,522 installs
principle-minimize-reader-load Apply when reviewing or shaping code that's hard to trace. Count layers between question and answer, and hidden state in the reader's head; collapse one-caller wrappers and shrink mutable scope.
4,421 installs
principle-never-block-on-the-human Apply when tempted to ask 'should I do X?' on reversible work.
6,060 installs
principle-subtract-before-you-add Apply when sequencing an addition, refactor, or rewrite. Remove dead code, redundant validators, and stub references first, then build on the simpler base.
6,095 installs
clean-code-principles SOLID principles, design patterns, DRY, KISS, and clean code fundamentals. Use when reviewing architecture, checking code quality, refactoring, or discussing design decisions. Triggers on "review architecture", "check code quality", "SOLID principles", "design patterns", or "clean code".
1,849 installs
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how Use for "how does X work", code walkthroughs before changing something, and placement / ownership / layering questions ("where should this live", "which package owns this", "is this the right layer"). Explains subsystem architecture, runtime flow, onboarding mental models. Use why for motivation.
6,703 installs
principle-fix-root-causes Apply when debugging. Trace each symptom back to the first place the system went wrong and fix it there. A guard is a fix only when the state it handles is legitimate.
6,598 installs
why Use for 'why does X work this way', 'why we picked Y', design rationale, regressions, postmortems, or data-backed thresholds. Discovers available MCPs and queries each evidence category (source control, issue tracker, long-form docs, real-time chat, infrastructure observability, error tracking, product analytics warehouse) in parallel, then returns a cited read on decisions and tradeoffs. Use how for runtime behavior.
6,590 installs
arena Spawn N parallel candidates at the same task, pick a base, graft the strongest parts of the losers into it. Use for /arena, 'arena this', 'throw it in the arena', or when one attempt at a non-trivial artifact would lock in the wrong shape.
6,507 installs
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