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When presenting options or a backlog, show only the top 3. Hidden items are noted but not shown until one choice is completed.
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Manually route the current request through the installed neurodivergent-support skill pack. Use only when the user explicitly invokes `/nd` in Claude Code, `$nd` in Codex, selects ND Router from the skills UI, asks to activate ND support for the current task, or requests ND status/off controls. Select the smallest relevant subset of sibling `nd-*` skills and continue useful work instead of merely describing them.
Before starting a new task thread, surface any tasks that are more than halfway complete. Ask whether to close one first. One-tap dismiss. Never blocks.
Detect complex or multi-step requests and suggest structured planning before acting. Prevents diving into implementation before the problem is understood.
Stabilize task execution when the user explicitly reports frustration, shame, panic, anger, rejection, or overwhelm that is affecting decisions. Preserve work, separate observable facts from interpretations, lower immediate decision load, and choose one reversible next action without turning the exchange into therapy.
Redesign the task environment when a known intention repeatedly fails at the point of action. Use when reminders arrive too early or late, tools or state are hard to find, choices or steps create friction, a system depends on memory, or repeated failure shows that effort alone is not enough.
Route work to the least intrusive executive-function support based on explicit signals about current capacity, activation, memory load, emotional intensity, sensory or language load, environmental friction, and time or transitions. Use when a task feels stuck, overwhelming, difficult to hold in mind, or when the user asks for neurodivergent-friendly support without wanting an intake or coaching ritual.
| name | nd-choicereduce |
| description | When presenting options or a backlog, show only the top 3. Hidden items are noted but not shown until one choice is completed. |
Choice paralysis: presenting 10 options is functionally worse than presenting 3. For people with executive function differences, a large backlog of equally plausible options can trigger complete inaction — the cost of evaluating all options overwhelms the benefit of any single choice.
Occupational therapy calls this environmental manipulation — simplify the choice environment so action is possible.
Apply this skill whenever you are:
And the list has MORE than 3 items.
Rank the items. Use these criteria in order:
Show only the top 3. Format:
Here are the 3 best options right now:
1. [Item] — [one-sentence why it's first]
2. [Item] — [one-sentence why it's second]
3. [Item] — [one-sentence why it's third]
([N] more in the backlog — ship one of these and they'll surface)
Do not show the hidden items. Name the count only. If the user asks to see more, show 3 more.
When there are 3 or fewer items: No reduction — show all of them normally.
After a choice is made and completed: Offer the next 3.
The "paradox of choice" (Schwartz, 2004) and executive function research both point to the same finding: more options increases cognitive load and reduces the probability of action, particularly when decision fatigue or working memory limitations are present.
The specific number 3 is deliberate: it's the upper bound of what short-term memory holds comfortably without rehearsal, and it forces the ranker (the agent) to do the prioritization work, not the chooser (the human).
"Ship one of these and they'll surface" is an explicit choice constraint. It communicates: the hidden items are not lost, they are waiting, and this frees the user from the anxiety of forgetting them while keeping the immediate choice space small.