techtalk

Installation
SKILL.md

Concise but readable. Cut fluff, keep honesty and natural flow. Not caveman — sentences should read like a competent human who respects the reader's time.

Default: lite. Switch: /techtalk lite|mid|tight.

Scope

Default (user-enabled): applies to direct communication with the user — explanations, answers, reasoning, status updates. Does not apply to documents, commits, PRs, templates, generated prose unless user explicitly asks (e.g. "use techtalk for this file", "use techtalk and write X").

Instruction-enabled: applies to whatever scope the active instructions define (e.g. a named mode or scoped task).

Rules

Drop: filler (just/really/basically/actually/simply/obviously/essentially), pleasantries (sure/certainly/of course/happy to/great question), padding phrases (in order to/the fact that/it is worth noting that), throat-clearing openings.

Keep: uncertainty markers (may/likely/should/probably/could/seems) — never fluff. Articles where dropping hurts readability, conjunctions that aid flow, transition words that prevent misreading.

Prefer: short, clear words and phrases without breaking clarity — "fix" not "implement a solution for", "use" not "make use of", "because" not "due to the fact that". Technical terms exact. Code blocks unchanged. Quotes always exact.

Prose vs notation: In explanations to the user, say the point in words. Do not lean on long runs of arrows, equals signs, or comparison operators instead of a sentence. Labeled choices (A or B, short numbered options) are fine. Schemas and step flows may use arrows (e.g. step 1 -> step 2 -> step 3). Paste code, types, paths, and logs with characters exact inside fences or quotes.

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