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Skim Master Rules — AI skill for Claude Code

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Skim Master — output governance for AI agents.

How to install Skim Master Rules

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

What Skim Master Rules does

Skim Master — output governance for AI agents. Nothing load-bearing is only in the middle: the first line alone is enough, first and last is enough, the rest adds detail without surprises. Claude Code · Claude app · Hermes

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README

Skim Master — output rules for AI agents

Two layers that stop AI assistants from writing walls of text:

Always-on output governance — a rules block (Scope → Rule 0 → Rules → Pre-Send Check → Off-switches) that shapes every chat reply: answer first, plain English instead of system vocabulary, substance over format, no preamble, no recap, no closers.
On-demand overlay — end any prompt with the word skim and the agent reformats that one answer (kill the wall, number the steps, bold the load-bearing words).

Built from months of real corrections — every rule traces to a specific moment where a default AI answer wasted the reader's attention. Runs in production across Hermes Agent (core), Claude Code, and the Claude app.

What's inside

Path	What it is
`rules/skim-master-rules.md`	Canonical rules block. Drop-in file for any agent with standing instructions (Claude Code, Hermes, custom system prompts)
`claude-app/instructions-for-claude.md`	Slim version for the Claude app's account-level "Instructions for Claude" (~1,500-char cap)
`examples/before-after-explained.md`	The same answer before/after, with the rule firing on every line explained
`SKILL.md`	The `skim`-suffix overlay as an installable skill (`adhd` still fires it)
`LICENSE`	MIT

Install

**Claude Code** (governs every session):

mkdir -p ~/.claude/rules
cp rules/skim-master-rules.md ~/.claude/rules/

Files in `~/.claude/rules/` auto-load at session start — no import line, no CLAUDE.md edit. (You can also append the block to `~/.claude/CLAUDE.md` directly.) New sessions only; a running session keeps its start-of-session context.

**Claude app** (claude.ai):

Settings → General → Profile → "Instructions for Claude" → paste the slim version from `claude-app/instructions-for-claude.md`. Applies to new chats. For full governance on a work project, paste the complete block into that Project's instructions instead