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Understate — AI skill for Claude Code

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Cut over-explanation — the #1 durable AI tell.

How to install Understate

Installs to ~/.claude/skills/marihq-mari-cc-understate/SKILL.md

Terminal

mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/marihq-mari-cc-understate && curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MariHQ/mari-cc/HEAD/commands/understate.md -o ~/.claude/skills/marihq-mari-cc-understate/SKILL.md

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

What Understate does

description: Cut over-explanation — the #1 durable AI tell argument-hint: "" allowed-tools: Bash(mari *), Read, Edit

Run the **understate** editorial verb from the mari skill on $ARGUMENTS (a path, a natural-language reference like "the changelog", or — if omitted — the file(s) just edited this session; ask if none).

Setup first: load PRODUCT.md / STYLE.md / FACTS.md if present, read a representative file for voice, resolve the register, and run `mari detect ` for groun

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