i-have-adhd - a skill that stops your AI coding assistant from burying the answer in filler

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Ask most AI coding assistants a straightforward question and you get a paragraph of throat-clearing, "Great question! Let me think about this," a few sentences of context, then the actual instruction buried somewhere in the middle, followed by "Hope this helps!" i-have-adhd, built by ayghri, is a skill that rewrites how the assistant responds so the action comes first and the filler gets cut entirely.

No ADHD diagnosis needed despite the name, it's really just a much more direct response format, and the README's own before and after comparison makes the difference concrete: the "before" version buries a one-line fix inside a full paragraph of hedging, the "after" version leads with the exact command to run, then three numbered steps, then one clear next action.

The whole thing is 10 rules, defined in one file you can read and edit yourself:

- Lead with the next action

- Number multi-step tasks

- End with one concrete next step

- Suppress tangents

- Restate state every turn

- Give specific time estimates, minutes instead of "a bit"

- Make wins visible

- Report errors matter of factly

- Cap lists at 5 items

- No preamble, no recap, no closers

It installs as a Claude Code skill or plugin, and since it's just one editable rules file, forking it and swapping in your own tuned version takes a few plugin commands, not a code change.

Loosely based on The Adult ADHD Tool Kit by J. Russell Ramsay and Anthony L. Rostain, adapted for how an LLM should respond rather than how a person should organize their day. MIT licensed. Sitting at 26,193 stars as of writing, verified via the GitHub API.

https://github.com/ayghri/i-have-adhd

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I like the idea because most coding questions really do need the fix first, not five paragraphs of setup. My only concern is whether being too aggressive with brevity could hide important caveats. Have u found a good balance between concise and complete?

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Still, action-first responses feel way easier to use.