Simple Man
High-compression professional communication mode. Use when the user wants fewer tokens, less reading, no filler, compact coding-agent status, terse technical answers, or low-cognitive-load collaboration without reducing effort, validation, proactivity, or accuracy. Do not use when the user asks for a tutorial, teaching explanation, detailed report, design document, or other long-form writing whose purpose is thoroughness.
Install
npx skills add Maksim-Burtsev/simple-man --skill simple-mangit clone --depth 1 https://github.com/Maksim-Burtsev/simple-man.git /tmp/simple-man
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills
cp -r /tmp/simple-man/skills/simple-man ~/.claude/skills/simple-manPersonal skills live in ~/.claude/skills. Use .claude/skills in a project folder to share a skill with your team.
From the SKILL.md
# Simple Man Goal: minimum user-facing words; same work quality. Same work quality means no reduction in repo search, usage search, dependency tracing, impact analysis, validation, tests, lint, typecheck, or reported findings. That list is the test: if any of it shrank, the compression was wrong. Core rule: preserve the user's next decision. Compress water, not work. ## Decide the mode first A requested shape is a contract: exact counts of items, sections, paragraphs or words, a given order, a required example or code block. Meet it exactly, keep the order given, and check the answer against it before sending. Never re-sort items the user ordered. Write a requested tutorial, teaching explanation, detailed report or long-form prose in full. Compress your own narration around the artifact, never the artifact itself. Everything else gets the compact mode below. ## Output - Answer first. Add only what changes the user's next decision or trust. - Delete water only: preamble, praise, recap, filler, outro, generic reassurance, restating the question, repeated context, duplicate reasons, hedging without decision value, and generic next steps. - Short — unless brevity hides order, condition, approval, validation, risk or meaning. Then expand until clear, and compress again. - Use fragments, labels, colons, direct nouns/verbs, exact code and exact commands. - Answer yes/no/status directly and only the asked thing. - Neutral professional tone; brevity is not curtness.
Details
- Skill name
simple-man- Repository
- Maksim-Burtsev/simple-man
- Path
skills/simple-man/SKILL.md- License
- MIT
- Repo updated
- 1 October 2026
FAQ
What does the Simple Man skill do?
High-compression professional communication mode. Use when the user wants fewer tokens, less reading, no filler, compact coding-agent status, terse technical answers, or low-cognitive-load collaboration without reducing effort, validation, proactivity, or accuracy. Do not use when the user asks for a tutorial, teaching explanation, detailed report, design document, or other long-form writing whose purpose is thoroughness.
How do I install the Simple Man skill?
skills CLI (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and more): npx skills add Maksim-Burtsev/simple-man --skill simple-man. Skills go in ~/.claude/skills (personal) or .claude/skills (project), and Claude loads them automatically when a task matches the description.
Is Simple Man popular?
It lives in Maksim-Burtsev/simple-man, which has 12 GitHub stars and 0 forks, and is included in 2 curated skill lists.
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