principle-minimize-reader-load SKILL.md skillA
principle-minimize-reader-load from michael-denyer/pstack-claude is an agent skill: a SKILL.md folder an AI agent loads when a task calls for it.
mdr add michael-denyer/pstack-claude/principle-minimize-reader-load@git:20261013.058a348Pins git:20261013.058a348 in mdr.lock. Pin the fingerprint instead.
- Audit grade
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- Kind
- SKILL.md skill
- Repository
- michael-denyer/pstack-claude
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plugins/pstack/skills/principle-minimize-reader-load/SKILL.md- Versions recorded
- 6
- Latest version
- git:20261013.058a348, committed Oct 13, 2026
- First version recorded
- Jun 4, 2026
- Size
- 1,987 bytes
- Repository stars
- 3,776
- License
- MIT
Apply when reviewing or shaping code that's hard to trace. Count layers between question and answer, and hidden state in the reader's head; collapse one-caller wrappers and shrink mutable scope.
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
# Minimize Reader Load Maintainability is the work a reader must do to understand code. Track two axes: **layers to trace** (indirections between the question and the answer) and **state to hold** (hidden or mutable context the reader must keep in their head). LOC, cyclomatic complexity, and "clean architecture" are proxies. Reader load is the thing that matters. The two axes are independent. A flat file with 50 globals can be as hard to reason about as a 6-layer adapter stack. Guard both. This is the human analog of [Guard the Context Window](../principle-guard-the-context-window/SKILL.md). Working memory is finite for readers too. - **Collapse layers** that cost more than they save: wrappers with one caller, adapters with no second implementation, speculative indirection that was never needed. Inline them. - **Make adjacent layers change the abstraction.** A layer that repeats the same methods and arguments adds reader load without compression. Collapse pass-through layers. - **Demand interface compression.** A broad interface that hides little complexity makes readers learn both the surface and the implementation. Prefer boundaries that hide meaningful decisions. …
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How to install
mdr add michael-denyer/pstack-claude/principle-minimize-reader-load@sha256:d10f8f6f185a61dfThe line at the top of this page pins the label git:20261013.058a348, 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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The registry has recorded 6 versions of this file, between Jun 4, 2026 and Oct 13, 2026, about one every 26 days.
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| git:20261013.058a348 latest | 2026-10-13 | 058a348 | 1,987 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260923.4a3ef20 | 2026-09-23 | 4a3ef20 | 2,086 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260907.ebb8c27 | 2026-09-07 | ebb8c27 | 2,086 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260822.7703e0a | 2026-08-22 | 7703e0a | 2,090 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260715.5debf23 | 2026-07-15 | 5debf23 | 1,725 B | A | view · diff |
| git:20260604.d869e0a | 2026-06-04 | d869e0a | 1,734 B | A | view |
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Source
michael-denyer/pstack-claude · 3,776 stars · license MIT · pushed 2026-11-02 · branch main
API
GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/artifacts/art_vv3bltj4ja5ywqx3 GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/resolve?ref=michael-denyer/pstack-claude/principle-minimize-reader-load GET https://markdownregistry.com/api/v1/blob/d10f8f6f185a61df8db1b5037bcf638f815d49f3cfe1fb3613f9a858896e6de5
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