The Claude Code Skill That Puts the Answer First
Someone built a Claude Code skill whose only job is to stop it from burying the answer. 🧠
No hooks. No background process. Ten rules in one markdown file.
You know the pattern:
You ask for a command.
Claude opens with "Great question! Let me think about this…" for three paragraphs. You scroll. You lose the thread.
/i-have-adhd reshapes every reply:
🔸 First line IS the answer — command, path, snippet. No warmup.
🔸 Multi-step tasks get numbered. One action each.
🔸 State restated every turn: "Step 3 of 5 done."
🔸 Tangents suppressed. Wins shown, not buried.
🔸 "Hope this helps!" is banned.
It's not "be terse." It's output design lifted from an actual ADHD toolkit, adapted for how a model should respond.
MIT. 30-second install.
This post is mostly accurate, but it contains a few marketing-style claims that should be softened.
Fact check
"Someone built a Claude Code skill whose only job is to stop it from burying the answer."
✅ Accurate, assuming such a publicly available Claude Code skill/repository exists.
Claude Code supports custom skills/instructions, so this is plausible.
"No hooks. No background process. Ten rules in one markdown file."
✅ Likely accurate if the repository is implemented that way.
This is a factual description of the repo's structure, not a technical claim.
"Claude opens with 'Great question! Let me think about this…' for three paragraphs."
🟡 Mostly fluff/hyperbole.
Claude sometimes gives conversational introductions, but not consistently, and not usually "three paragraphs."
This is rhetorical rather than factual.
"/i-have-adhd reshapes every reply:"
✅ Accurate if those behaviors are indeed defined in the skill.
"First line IS the answer."
✅ Accurate if it's one of the rules.
"Multi-step tasks get numbered."
✅ Accurate if specified.
"State restated every turn: 'Step 3 of 5 done.'"
✅ Accurate if that's part of the instructions.
"Tangents suppressed. Wins shown, not buried."
✅ Reasonable.
These are stylistic goals, not measurable technical claims.
"'Hope this helps!' is banned."
✅ Accurate if explicitly listed in the markdown rules.
"It's output design lifted from an actual ADHD toolkit."
🟡 Needs evidence.
Unless the repository cites or adapts a documented ADHD communication framework, this claim is not verifiable.
Better wording would be:
"Inspired by ADHD-friendly communication principles."
"MIT. 30-second install."
✅ Likely accurate if the repo uses the MIT License and installation is genuinely that simple.
Overall verdict
Accuracy: 8.5/10
The post accurately describes what a formatting/instruction skill can do, but it overstates Claude's default behavior and makes an unsupported claim about being adapted from an "actual ADHD toolkit" unless the repository explicitly documents that source.
Real vs Fluff
🟢 75% Real | 🟡 25% Fluff
Real (75%): Repository existence, markdown rules, installation, formatting behaviors.
Fluff (25%): Exaggerated description of Claude's default responses and the unverified "actual ADHD toolkit" attribution.