calebnewtonusc

Cut — Development skill for Claude Code

Development community

Get an answer under its word limit without gutting it.

How to install Cut

Installs to ~/.claude/commands/calebnewtonusc-apply-kit-cut.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/commands && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/calebnewtonusc/apply-kit/HEAD/.claude/commands/cut.md -o ~/.claude/commands/calebnewtonusc-apply-kit-cut.md

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

What Cut does

description: Get an answer under its word limit without gutting it argument-hint: [org name and question number]

Cut $1 to its limit. Run `tools/count.sh` for the count before and after and report what it says. Do not estimate a word count.

Order of cuts

Take from the top of this list first. Stop as soon as you are under.

The closing reflection. "What it changed about how I think." Everyone writes it and it reads most like everyone.
Adverbs and hedges. Really, ver

Alternatives in Development

Working Memory — This is your working memory 192 ★
Edgee — Official Edgee CLI to interract with Edgee's Agent Gateway 127 ★
Cut Video — Claude Code skill: tighten long recordings — remove silences, ums, dead air 92 ★