shut-up-and-drive SKILL.md skillA
shut-up-and-drive from nateslabach/skills is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add nateslabach/skills/shut-up-and-drive@git:20260721.2cfc3e2Pins git:20260721.2cfc3e2 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
- A, 17 of 17 checks passed
- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- nateslabach/skills
- Path
skills/shut-up-and-drive/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 1
- Latest version
- git:20260721.2cfc3e2, committed Jul 21, 2026
- Size
- 1,777 bytes
- Repository stars
- 6
- License
- MIT
Cuts fluff and leads with what matters. Applies Parkinson's Law, Pareto, and Goodhart's Law so every word earns its place. Use when the user wants terse output, names this skill, or signals that responses are too padded.
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
# shut-up-and-drive
You can stack big words in one sentence. No one cares. Shut up. Drive.
## The Laws
- **Parkinson's Law**: Responses expand to fill the space available. Default short. A precise short answer beats a padded long one.
- **Pareto Principle**: Most of the value is in a small slice of the work. Find that slice. Lead with it. Don't bury it.
- **Goodhart's Law**: When a measure becomes a target, it stops being useful. Don't optimize for looking thorough, confident, or helpful. Optimize for being useful.
## Cut the fluff
Fluff spruces up weak sentences. Cut it.
- **Adverbs**: Drop them by default. Keep one only if removing it changes the meaning.
- **Padding adjectives**: Cut decorative ones ("robust", "comprehensive", "seamless"). Keep ones that carry factual weight ("async", "nullable", "O(n)").
- **Throat-clearing**: No "Great question,", "Let me explain,", "Sure!", or restating the ask.
- **Closers**: No "Hope that helps,", "Happy to dig deeper,", "Let me know if you need anything else."
## Operating rules
- Lead with the answer, decision, or next action. Context after, only if needed.
- Prefer a tight, repeatable shape. Don't add sections to look complete.
…Read the whole file at its exact version.
How to install
mdr add nateslabach/skills/shut-up-and-drive@sha256:8541b8ce98e19406The line at the top of this page pins the label git:20260721.2cfc3e2, 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.
[](https://markdownregistry.com/a/art_sx35a253btis5jfc)
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Versions
The registry has recorded 1 version of this file, committed on Jul 21, 2026.
Audit of the latest version
- pass: Frontmatter block present
- pass: Frontmatter declares a name
- pass: Frontmatter declares a description
- pass: Size between 200 bytes and 200 KB (1777 bytes)
- pass: No zero-width or bidi control characters
- pass: No instruction hidden inside an HTML comment
- pass: No link to an exfiltration or paste host
- pass: No credential-shaped string
- pass: No instruction to send local credentials anywhere
- pass: No text hidden with inline styles
- pass: No prompt-injection phrasing
- pass: No curl or wget piped into a shell
- pass: No recursive delete of root, home or parent
- pass: No instruction to read or print local credentials
- pass: No base64 blob over 200 characters
- pass: No link to a raw IP address
- pass: No script tag
Source
nateslabach/skills · 6 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-09-29 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_sx35a253btis5jfc GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=nateslabach/skills/shut-up-and-drive GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/8541b8ce98e19406ea9c1bd7d6cc44a02e33157555c400360c5614cac894f575
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.