Think-in-Code Skill

Principle

1 Bash script = N Read calls avoided.

When you'd read 10 files sequentially to extract a summary, you waste tokens loading full contents into context. Instead: 1 shell pipeline returns the compact aggregated result.

Heuristic: if your task is "for each file in set, compute/extract X, then aggregate" → write the script. Reserve Read for targeted inspection of a specific file you already know matters.

5 Runnable Patterns

1. File size audit (> 100 lines violations)