From 006ca0546bc5aa144e2796875debf3f73852a27c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt Pocock Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2026 11:07:06 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] refactor: loosen wait-what's re-pitch scope to a bare demonstrative MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit "Re-pitch that last message" pinned the correction to one message. "Re-pitch that" leaves the agent to judge how much of what it said failed to land — and is shorter. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) --- .changeset/wait-what.md | 2 +- skills/in-progress/README.md | 2 +- skills/in-progress/wait-what/SKILL.md | 2 +- 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/.changeset/wait-what.md b/.changeset/wait-what.md index da37751..7207f65 100644 --- a/.changeset/wait-what.md +++ b/.changeset/wait-what.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ "mattpocock-skills": minor --- -Add **`wait-what`** to `in-progress/` — a fire extinguisher for model verbosity. Fire it the moment a message doesn't land, and the agent re-pitches *that message*: a little context, ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English, and the ubiquitous language from your `CONTEXT.md`. User-invoked, three lines long. +Add **`wait-what`** to `in-progress/` — a fire extinguisher for model verbosity. Fire it the moment a message doesn't land, and the agent re-pitches it: a little context, ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English, and the ubiquitous language from your `CONTEXT.md`. User-invoked, three lines long. The mechanism is the name. Concision skills fail by growing — a 400-line skill still leaves the model verbose — so this one is a single precise leading word and nothing else. It also reuses the leading words already in your global `CLAUDE.md`, so the skill, `CLAUDE.md` and every `CONTEXT.md` reach for the same tokens. diff --git a/skills/in-progress/README.md b/skills/in-progress/README.md index 12270c2..d44b93a 100644 --- a/skills/in-progress/README.md +++ b/skills/in-progress/README.md @@ -7,5 +7,5 @@ Skills that are still being developed. They're not ready to ship — expect roug - **[writing-fragments](./writing-fragments/SKILL.md)** — Grilling session that mines you for fragments — heterogeneous nuggets of writing — and appends them to a single document as raw material for a future article. - **[writing-shape](./writing-shape/SKILL.md)** — Take a markdown file of raw material and shape it into an article paragraph by paragraph, arguing format choices at each step. - **[claude-handoff](./claude-handoff/SKILL.md)** — Hand the current conversation off to a fresh background agent that picks up the work immediately, seeded with a handoff summary via `claude --bg`. User-invoked. -- **[wait-what](./wait-what/SKILL.md)** — Fire this when the agent's last message did not land. It re-pitches that message with the context you're missing, in plain English, using your `CONTEXT.md` vocabulary. User-invoked. +- **[wait-what](./wait-what/SKILL.md)** — Fire this when the agent's last message did not land. It re-pitches what didn't land, with the context you're missing, in plain English, using your `CONTEXT.md` vocabulary. User-invoked. - **[setup-ts-deep-modules](./setup-ts-deep-modules/SKILL.md)** — Wire dependency-cruiser into a TypeScript repo so each package is a deep module — implementation hidden in subfolders, reachable only through its entry-point files, tests exercising it through those. User-invoked. diff --git a/skills/in-progress/wait-what/SKILL.md b/skills/in-progress/wait-what/SKILL.md index 318c4be..d493cfa 100644 --- a/skills/in-progress/wait-what/SKILL.md +++ b/skills/in-progress/wait-what/SKILL.md @@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ description: Stop. That last message did not land — re-pitch it. disable-model-invocation: true --- -Wait — I don't understand where you've got to here. Re-pitch that last message: give me a little bit of context, talk in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English, and use the ubiquitous language from `CONTEXT.md`. +Wait — I don't understand where you've got to here. Re-pitch that: give me a little bit of context, talk in ASD-STE100 Simplified Technical English, and use the ubiquitous language from `CONTEXT.md`.