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# Brevity principles for long-lived artifacts Applies to anything that outlives the conversation: code, comments, docstrings, frontmatter descriptions, task files (`docs/tasks/<slug>.md`), READMEs, commit messages. Every skill that writes to such artifacts applies these rules to the section it owns. The goal is an audit trail, not a retelling. ## Principles 1. **Omit, don't fill.** A subsection with default content ("none", "n/a", "single phase, no deps", "no open questions") is deleted, not

Installation

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/btseytlin-ultrapack-_brevity/SKILL.md

Terminal
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/btseytlin-ultrapack-_brevity && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/btseytlin/ultrapack/HEAD/skills/_brevity.md -o ~/.claude/skills/btseytlin-ultrapack-_brevity/SKILL.md

Restart Claude Code, or start a new session, for it to be picked up.

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