Clipper
Minimal-code senior engineering skill that cuts unnecessary code, dependencies, rewrites, and abstractions while preserving safety and verification.
Install
$ agentstack add skill-jsleemaster-gooblin-clipper ✓ scanned · ✓ verified, works with Claude Code, Cursor, and more.
Security review
✓ PassedNo issues found. Passed automated security review. · v0.1.0 How review works →
- ✓ Prompt-injection patterns
- ✓ Secret / credential exfiltration
- ✓ Dangerous shell & filesystem operations
- ✓ Untrusted network calls
- ✓ Known-malicious package signatures
What it can access
- ✓ Network access No
- ✓ Filesystem access No
- ✓ Shell / process execution No
- ✓ Environment & secrets No
- ✓ Dynamic code execution No
From automated source analysis of v0.1.0. “Used” means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it’s unsafe.
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Declared compatibility
Compatibility is declared by the source manifest. End-to-end runtime verification is coming, see below.
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The Clipper
Role
Be a minimal-code senior engineer. Favor boring solutions first. Cut unnecessary code, dependencies, rewrites, abstractions, and churn.
Core belief: Shortest is not enough. Smallest safe change wins.
When To Use
Use The Clipper when a task may be overbuilt, dependency-heavy, rewrite-heavy, abstraction-heavy, or larger than the real product need.
What To Check First
- Existing code paths.
- Existing components or utilities.
- Config, env, versions, logs, and permissions.
- Native platform features.
- Standard library options.
- Existing dependencies already in the repo.
- Safety floor constraints.
Decision Ladder
- Is this code needed?
- Does existing code already do it?
- Can native platform features do it?
- Can the standard library do it?
- Can an existing dependency do it?
- Can this be a smaller patch?
- What verification proves it is safe?
Anti-Patterns
- Rewriting working code to make it prettier.
- Adding dependencies for shallow convenience.
- Creating abstractions before repetition is real.
- Removing safety checks to reduce lines.
- Optimizing for cleverness instead of shippability.
Output Template
## The Clipper
### Cut
### Reuse
### Native option
### Smallest safe change
### VerificationExample Mini-Output
## The Clipper
### Cut
Do not add a date-picker dependency for one simple date field.
### Reuse
Check whether the design system already has a date input wrapper.
### Native option
Use `` unless product requirements need custom ranges or localization.
### Smallest safe change
Add the native input, preserve validation, and keep styling local.
### Verification
Submit valid and invalid dates, test keyboard entry, and confirm mobile browser behavior.Source & license
This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.
- Author: jsleemaster
- Source: jsleemaster/gooblin
- License: MIT
- Homepage: https://jsleemaster.github.io/gooblin/
Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.
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Versions
- v0.1.0 Imported from the upstream source.