ai-driven-dev/framework/03-condense

Condense

Toggles a terse output mode with three intensity levels (lite, full, ultra). Strips articles, filler, and pleasantries from prose while preserving technical substance, code blocks, quoted errors, and security warnings.

Available actions

Default flow

Single action skill. The router dispatches to condense whenever a toggle phrase or intensity command appears.

Transversal rules

• Toggle: invoking the skill while active turns it off and restores normal communication; invoking while off turns it on.
• Drop fluff: drop articles (a/an/the), filler (just/really/basically/actually/simply), pleasantries (sure/certainly/of course/happy to), and hedging. Fragments are acceptable.
• Short synonyms: prefer short words (big not extensive, fix not "implement a solution for"). Technical terms stay exact. Code blocks are unchanged. Errors are quoted verbatim.
• Pattern: [thing] [action] [reason]. [next step].
• Auto-pause: drop terse mode for security warnings, irreversible action confirmations, multi-step sequences where fragment order risks misread, or when the user is confused. Resume once the at-risk passage is clear.
• Boundaries: code, commits, and pull request bodies are written in normal English regardless of intensity. The intensity level persists until toggled off or until session end.

References

• references/intensity-levels.md: detailed per-level rules and side-by-side examples.

Assets

• None.

External data

• None.