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debloat
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Cut an artifact that has accreted into bloat, prose or code, to its load-bearing density, meaning and behavior preserved. In prose: padding, over-qualification, fused sentences, walls of enumeration, adjacent restatement. In code, behind green tests: comments that restate the code, commented-out code, vague TODOs, dead code, debug leftovers, guards on guaranteed values, pass-through wrappers, single-use helpers, and nesting a guard clause flattens. Use when the user names an artifact, section, file list, or diff that is correct and current but verbose, patched-over, or slop-filled and wants it tight without a full rewrite; when they ask to clean up, deslop, or remove AI slop from code or recent changes; or when a pipeline the user invoked passes that scope on. Acts only inside that scope.
How to install debloat
install debloat
# install the paperthin pack with the skills CLI
npx skills add LilMGenius/paperthin# or add only this skill to Claude Code: copy the folder
skills/depth/debloat/
# into
~/.claude/skills/debloat/ (all projects)
.claude/skills/debloat/ (one project)
1Cut a bloated artifact, prose or code, to its load-bearing minimum: same meaning, same behavior, less text.23## Goal45Correct, current work accumulates excess. Prose gathers qualifiers, repeated rules, and long enumerations until readers must study what they should skim. A reader is a person or a model, and both pay for each extra word in attention and in how clearly the next action reads. Code gathers comments that restate it, branches nothing reaches, guards against states that cannot occur, and layers that only forward a call. `debloat` cuts what carries no meaning or behavior and preserves everything load-bearing. It tightens otherwise sound work; rewriting belongs to `re0`, deduplication across artifacts to `ssotize`, and code conventions to `re0-style`. The excess it removes is one class of machine-writing tell.67## Workflow891. Pin the artifact and read it end to end. Note in one line what each section must convey, or what each unit of code must do.10…
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