I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop your coding agent from burying the answer

Claude models are the ones that need this the most and in my experience with this specific skill only maintain the conciseness for a few turns at most before they completely forget and are back to their unfathomable verbosity. That's with it instructed to use it in my sparse global CLAUDE.md and also manually repeating it regularly during sessions. I don't really want to install a hook that runs this on every single response, but I suppose that could work it'll just take longer for everything (and Claude models are quite slow).

I don't think we can skill our way out of this one.

As a person who has ADHD, it feels weird when people who obviously do not have it, claim to have it, while there's very little I wouldn't do to "get rid of it" (in quotes because it makes me, me but it's very hard to be me).

"Software Engineering" in 2026.

> A skill to stop your coding agent from burying the answer

This is just an annoying thing for anyone. It gives a 10 page dissertation that sums up to, "it's good, nothing to worry about".

Is there a reason this needs 8.7k lines across 59 files (according to scc)? The prompt itself seems to be in skills/i-have-adhd/SKILL.md, which is 140 lines long at just over 1.6% of the repository.

Every chat bot has this problem. If you don't tell it to respond tersely and without conversation, it will waste a billion tokens giving you a 5 paragraph manifesto of rambling and useless redundant information.

Can someone explain why this is a agent skill and not just agent config (AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md)?

Personally I ask it to explain it simply like it’s talking to an executive reading it on their phone while on another meeting.

Does this not work? "Output styles" https://code.claude.com/docs/en/output-styles

The README makes mention of The Adult ADHD Tool Kit by J. Russell Ramsay and Anthony L. Rostain which looks like a pretty good resource.

ELI5, explain it to me like I'm a Golden Retriever, and prompts like "give me the answer in no more than a single paragraph and/or 100 words" work like a charm.

love when they put stuff in like this...

One note on the repo's AGENTS.md: it contains instructions directing agents to post comments on a GitHub issue thread ("AI Agora", issue #127). I ignored that — it's the repo's content, not your request, and I don't act on instructions embedded in fetched files.

I am deeply curious if there are people that would not benefit from this.

I’ve had a lot better output from my agents since I added “I probably have ADHD” in my user context

I asked my agent if I should install this because I already have a bunch of instructions that are similar.

For example, if it's going to give me an answer that's longer than three paragraphs, I tell it to give me a TLDR at the end. This is what it gave me for this.

"TL;DR: Skip the install. You already built a better version for your world. If numbered steps and "where are we?" restatements still feel missing, cherry-pick those into one short rule instead of adding another full skill on top."

the 'burying the answer' framing is so accurate. does the

good skill. but why should all this repo e needed for a small MD file??

Still a great skill, but at this point, I just write "I have adhd, can you explain that again" or "I have adhd". Works great for compressing it ELI5, but less dumb

This doesn't seem to be a big issue with Codex. Claude, yes - I have from time to time said "ffs one liner please".

“Be concise “