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Shorthand — Development skill for Claude Code

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Teach Claude your shorthand.

How to install Shorthand

This entry records only its repository, not the path inside it, so there is no exact command to give. Open alexknowshtml/shorthand and copy the folder into ~/.claude/skills/, or the file into ~/.claude/agents/.

What Shorthand does

Teach Claude your shorthand. Scan your commands, mine your session history, and build natural language routing — so you stop typing slash commands and start talking.

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README

Shorthand

**Teach Claude your shorthand.**

Shorthand scans your Claude Code commands and skills, mines your session history, and builds a natural language routing layer — so you stop typing slash commands and start talking.

Instead of remembering that `/create-invoice` is the command you need, just say "invoice Acme for $450 for March consulting." Shorthand figures out which command to run.

More examples:

"check my email" routes to your work inbox, not your personal one
"schedule a client call for Thursday" puts it on your business calendar, not your personal one
"prep for my 2pm with Sarah" pulls context from the right CRM, project notes, and past conversations
"remind me to follow up with John on Tuesday" creates the reminder in your preferred system
"what's on my plate today" shows priorities from the tools you actually use

The routing isn't generic — it's *yours*. Your commands already know which inbox, which calendar, which tools. Shorthand just lets you reach them by talking naturally.

Why Not Just Talk to Claude?

Claude already does this natively — it can often figure out that "check my email" means you want `/email-overview`.

But it's not always consistent. Sometimes it catches the intent, sometimes it doesn't, and sometimes it routes to the wrong command.

Shorthand trades a small amount of token efficiency for reliable, repeatable routing. If consistency matters more to you than saving ~5,000 tokens per session, this is for you.

How It Works

Shorthand adds two things to your Claude Code project:

A routing snippet in your CLAUDE.md that tells Claude to check intent mappings before processing each message
A JSON file (intent-mappings.json) that maps natural language triggers to your existing commands and skills

When you type "check my email," Claude matches it against your mappings and invokes `/email-overview`. When you say "prep for my 2pm with Sarah," it runs `/prep-meeting` with the righ