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Essentialize — Git skill for Claude Code

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Safely reduces a single tracked file in a git repo to its most essential form without losing functional information.

How to install Essentialize

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/lpasqualis-lpclaude-essentialize/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/lpasqualis-lpclaude-essentialize && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lpasqualis/lpclaude/HEAD/commands/essentialize.md -o ~/.claude/skills/lpasqualis-lpclaude-essentialize/SKILL.md

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

What Essentialize does

name: /essentialize description: "Safely reduces a single tracked file in a git repo to its most essential form without losing functional information. One-pass, dry-run guarded, idempotent." argument-hint: " [additional-constraints or focus-areas]" allowed-tools: "Read, Write, Edit, MultiEdit, LS, Glob, Grep, Bash"

**Assumptions**

The input is one file path, already tracked in git (HEAD exists).
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