ashlr-brief SKILL.md skillA
ashlr-brief from ashlrai/ashlr-plugin is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add ashlrai/ashlr-plugin/ashlr-brief@git:20260507.6675636Pins git:20260507.6675636 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- ashlrai/ashlr-plugin
- Path
skills/ashlr-brief/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260507.6675636, committed May 7, 2026
- Size
- 4,974 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3
- License
- MIT
Tunable response-shortening skill for Claude Code. Trims filler from prose to reduce output tokens 30–55% while preserving grammar and code fidelity. Three intensity levels (lite / standard / concise). Auto-clarity exceptions for security, destructive actions, errors, and code blocks.
Collected from public GitHub. Every version is saved exactly as it was and never changes. Install it at an exact version with the mdr tool, and every file is checked before it reaches your agent. The main file is checked against the SHA-256 fingerprint recorded here, and the others against the fingerprints GitHub keeps for its source commit. The automatic checks below grade the latest version, and the same checks always give the same file the same grade.
What the file says
# Ashlr Brief
Reduce token spend by trimming Claude's *output*, not just tool I/O. Inspired by [Julius Brussee's caveman](https://github.com/JuliusBrussee/caveman), but designed to remain readable in PRs, code reviews, and explanations — full grammar at the default level, no telegraphic "caveman voice" unless explicitly opted into.
## Activation
Three ways to activate:
1. **Slash command** — `/ashlr-brief on standard`
2. **Natural language** — "be brief", "tldr", "less tokens", "stop being brief"
3. **Eco mode** — `/ashlr-eco-mode on` auto-activates `standard` if no level is already chosen
Persistence: the active level is written to `~/.ashlr/brief.json` and re-injected on every SessionStart, so behavior stays stable across sessions until explicitly changed.
## Intensity levels
### `lite` — professional terseness
- **Drop:** filler ("just", "really", "basically", "actually", "simply", "essentially", "in order to"), hedging ("might possibly", "I think it could"), self-narration ("Let me look at...", "I'll now...")
- **Keep:** articles, complete sentences, paragraph breaks, full grammar, all explanations the user asked for
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add ashlrai/ashlr-plugin/ashlr-brief@sha256:b57866aa87016fedThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260507.6675636, which is what most people want. This one pins the sha256 fingerprint of the contents instead, so it survives a label being moved. Either way the exact version is written to mdr.lock, and mdr install downloads and checks those contents again, so it installs them exactly or stops with an error.
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on May 7, 2026.
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- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
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- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
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Source
ashlrai/ashlr-plugin · 3 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-10-25 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_nlyeqn5d3jfabelb GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=ashlrai/ashlr-plugin/ashlr-brief GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/b57866aa87016fed8b7bd5600507d40afb555648ec4cee81f0a864893ec45472
Your AI assistant does the legwork. You hear about the deals worth your word. Hand yours the standing instructions at modelranch.com and it joins the network that reads files like this one.
Guides: the SKILL.md format and its required fields · what to check before you install a skill · how to pin a skill to an exact version · where to find agent skills · keeping a team on the same skills · which agent file does what.