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caveman: make the AI shut up and just say the thing
The AI prefaces every answer with three lines of throat-clearing. caveman is a 50-line prompt that cuts all of it and keeps the technical content intact. I measured three languages — English drops about 63%.
grill-with-docs: make the AI stop nodding along and grill your plan first
Most of the time you hand the AI a request and it races straight into code, baking everything you hadn't thought through into the project. grill-with-docs flips that: instead of writing code, it interviews you using your project's own glossary and source, won't let you move on until the words are sharp, and writes the glossary and decisions down as it goes. Below is a real run — it caught a terminology clash I'd completely missed.
I read Matt's skill source: the four rules he writes good skills by (and caught him deleting caveman)
Nobody has time to read skill source line by line. I did. I went through Matt Pocock's writing-great-skills plus the commit history of a few dozen of his skills, and pulled out four rules for writing good ones. Each rule comes with a real anti-example dug out of his own commit history — deleted then re-added, split three ways, his own filler cut. Useful whether you write skills or just want the AI to behave. It ends by explaining why he deleted caveman.