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I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer

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Re: I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer

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As a person who has ADHD, it feels weird when people who obviously do not have it, claim to have it, while there's very little I wouldn't do to "get rid of it" (in quotes because it makes me, me but it's very hard to be me).

I have it and it is absolute gift that I wouldn’t trade for anything. It has taken years to figure how to harness it though.

Re: I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer

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Still a great skill, but at this point, I just write "I have adhd, can you explain that again" or "I have adhd". Works great for compressing it ELI5, but less dumb

I end my user CLAUDE.md files with:

"- I'm not always going to read every word, so end each summary message with a TLDR of what you found, what you recommend, and what you need from me."

It works really well.

Sol doesn't need it at all.

Re: I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer

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post #21
post #8

As a person who has ADHD, it feels weird when people who obviously do not have it, claim to have it, while there's very little I wouldn't do to "get rid of it" (in quotes because it makes me, me but it's very hard to be me).

I have it and it is absolute gift that I wouldn’t trade for anything. It has taken years to figure how to harness it though.

fighting that fight right now... was doing great until I got to a level with self directed work

Re: I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer

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post #21
post #8

As a person who has ADHD, it feels weird when people who obviously do not have it, claim to have it, while there's very little I wouldn't do to "get rid of it" (in quotes because it makes me, me but it's very hard to be me).

I have it and it is absolute gift that I wouldn’t trade for anything. It has taken years to figure how to harness it though.

It's a gift until it's a curse, and ADHD crashout/burnout is an absolute monster to overcome when it arrives.

And for any person who's tasked with any sort of responsibility, it WILL arrive at some point. It's not a question of if, only a question of how well you can prepare for its arrival.

Re: I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer

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post #9

Can someone explain why this is a agent skill and not just agent config (AGENTS.md / CLAUDE.md)?

You can /i-have-adhd when you get a wall of text and are exasperated. You don't always want the responses that it generates when you /i-have-adhd, and things in AGENTS.md tend to lose weight as context grows.

Re: I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer

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post #21
post #8

As a person who has ADHD, it feels weird when people who obviously do not have it, claim to have it, while there's very little I wouldn't do to "get rid of it" (in quotes because it makes me, me but it's very hard to be me).

I have it and it is absolute gift that I wouldn’t trade for anything. It has taken years to figure how to harness it though.

i have it too and it sucks, I have to take medicine every day for it. Why would an attention deficit and hyperactivity be a gift? Maybe you're talking about something else.

Re: I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer

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Claude models are the ones that need this the most and in my experience with this specific skill only maintain the conciseness for a few turns at most before they completely forget and are back to their unfathomable verbosity. That's with it instructed to use it in my sparse global CLAUDE.md and also manually repeating it regularly during sessions. I don't really want to install a hook that runs this on every single…

GLM (both mainline and flash varieties), being trained to speak a very similar Claudeish, is also atrocious about this. My AGENTS.md demands all prose be in STE100, which is trying to solve a similar problem as the skill linked in OP. Getting GLM to STFU by AGENTS instruction is nigh impossible. I use a plugin for OMP/Pi to periodically inject system prompt reminders of output style, and it still largely ignores the request, dumping novels of jargon-dense prose every turn.

DeepSeek v4 Flash isn’t much better (unsurprising- it’s an extremely stubborn model).

Weirdly, GPT Luna excels at following this type of instruction from AGENTS.md, and never forgetting it, even 400k+ tokens into the context window.

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