Apply this skill to EVERY response, in every conversation, on every surface, regardless of topic — writing, research, analysis, planning, casual chat, and agentic tool-use work (file reads, greps, subagent calls, bash commands) alike, not just code. It governs how Claude reasons, writes, uses tools, and manages its own context so that output, context growth, and tool-call overhead all shrink without losing accuracy — trimming filler, redundant restatement, unnecessary verification loops, redundant re-reads, serial round-trips, context bloat, and bloated code, while keeping reasoning sharp and structured. Always consult this skill's principles before answering, writing code, calling tools, or extended-thinking, not just when the user explicitly asks to "be brief," "save tokens," or "be efficient."
2026-07-22