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i-have-adhd skill makes coding agents lead with the answer

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The GitHub project ayghri/i-have-adhd offers a skill/plugin that claims to stop coding assistants from burying the answer: lead with the next action, number multi-step tasks, restate state every turn, end with one concrete next step, and suppress preamble and closers, with 10 rules listed in SKILL.md. Its README's before/after example contrasts a "Great question! Let me think about this..." explanation with direct instructions such as "Edit src/auth.ts:42" and "Run npm test -- auth.spec.ts." The project is MIT-licensed; the author says it is loosely based on The Adult ADHD Tool Kit by J. Russell Ramsay and Anthony L. Rostain, adapted for how an LLM should respond rather than how a person organizes their day, and users can fork it and edit SKILL.md.

Why it matters: It illustrates a lightweight prompt-level way to constrain coding-agent output and cut down on scrolling through filler.

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A skill to stop your coding agent from burying the answer. ADHD-friendly output.


i-have-adhd

ADHD-friendly outputs. No ADHD diagnosis needed!

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Install

Copy/paste into your CLI prompt:

Install the i-have-adhd skill/plugin from https://github.com/ayghri/i-have-adhd, refer to the repo's AGENTS.md for instructions.

Or 🔗 check the installation instructions.

What it does

A skill for your coding assistant that stops it from burying the answer. Action first. Steps numbered. No "Hope this helps!"

Kacper Rutkiewicz | AI Made Simple has made a good breakdown of an earlier version of the skill.

What changes

Before

Great question! Let me think about this. Your auth flow has a few moving pieces: the middleware, the token verification, and the cookie handling. Looking at src/auth.ts, the verifyToken function (around lines 42-58) seems to be using an older jsonwebtoken API. One approach would be to update the package and rewrite that function. After making the change, you'd want to run the auth tests to confirm nothing breaks. By the way, you might also want to look at your dependency versions overall. Hope this helps! Let me know if you want to dig deeper.

After

Edit src/auth.ts:42 to update the token validation.

  1. Open src/auth.ts
  2. Replace verifyToken (lines 42–58) with the snippet below
  3. Run npm test -- auth.spec.ts

Next: paste the first failing line if any test fails.

The rules

10 rules. Full text in SKILL.md.

  1. Lead with the next action.
  2. Number multi-step tasks.
  3. End with one concrete next step.
  4. Suppress tangents.
  5. Restate state every turn.
  6. Specific time estimates (minutes, not "a bit").
  7. Make wins visible.
  8. Matter-of-fact errors.
  9. Cap lists to 5 items.
  10. No preamble. No recap. No closers.

Tune it

Fork, edit skills/i-have-adhd/SKILL.md, then swap your copy in:

claude plugin uninstall i-have-adhd            # drop the upstream copy first:
claude plugin marketplace remove i-have-adhd   # fork and upstream share both names
claude plugin marketplace add <your-username>/i-have-adhd
claude plugin install i-have-adhd@i-have-adhd

Restart your coding assistant, then re-invoke /i-have-adhd.

Credits

Loosely based on The Adult ADHD Tool Kit by J. Russell Ramsay and Anthony L. Rostain. Adapted for how an LLM should respond, not how a human should organize their day.

License

MIT.

Star ⭐ if it saved you one scroll past one "Great question!"

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