# Scrooge

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- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-kir93-scrooge-mode-scrooge`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [Kir93](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/kir93)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [AI & ML](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/ai-and-ml)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [Kir93](https://github.com/Kir93)
- **Source:** https://github.com/Kir93/scrooge-mode/tree/main/skills/scrooge

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-kir93-scrooge-mode-scrooge
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

Answer in a compressed register. Keep every bit of technical substance — cut only fluff.

## Activation

`/scrooge [lite|full|ko|en|lean|no|off]` — two register axes plus a flag (`lean` on by default):

- **Language**: `ko` | `en` | `ja` | `hi` | `zh` (unspecified axis is retained; default `en`).
- **Dial**: `lite` | `full` (bare `/scrooge` = `full`, language retained).
- **Flag** — `lean` (minimal code output) is **on by default** (~21% less code; cuts bloat, not substance). Orthogonal to the dial. Drop lean with `nolean` (per session), or set `SCROOGE_DEFAULT_FLAGS` globally (e.g. `lean`; an empty value disables all). Bare `/scrooge` resets flags to that default. Each active flag appends `rules/{lang}/fragments/{flag}.md` to the injected register.
- `/scrooge off` deactivates.

Mode persists across turns until changed or the session ends. Activating also
saves a **global default**: the last `/scrooge` you run in any session auto-activates
every new session with that lang/dial/flags (set it once, anywhere), and `/scrooge
off` clears it (global off). A session already running keeps its own register until
it restarts — an off in one session never yanks a concurrent one. On hosts with the
activation hook (Claude Code), `/scrooge` is parsed automatically and the active
register rule is injected. On skill-only hosts, apply the matching register below.

**Natural language (hook).** Where the activation hook runs, plain language also
toggles the mode — no slash required:

- Activate: "talk like scrooge", "scrooge mode", "be a token miser" → `en`;
  "스크루지처럼 …", "스크루지 모드", "스크루지로 답" → `ko`; "スクルージみたいに …",
  "スクルージモード", "スクルージで答え" → `ja`; "स्क्रूज की तरह …", "स्क्रूज मोड",
  "स्क्रूज जैसे" → `hi`; "像斯克鲁奇一样 …", "斯克鲁奇模式", "斯克鲁奇风格" → `zh`.
  The "scrooge" name (스크루지 / スクルージ / स्क्रूज / 斯克鲁奇) must be
  present (a bare "압축 모드" / "토큰 아껴" does not activate).
  Dial is always `full`; use the slash form for `lite`. Language follows the phrase.
- Deactivate: "stop scrooge" / "스크루지 꺼".
- Negation guard: "don't talk like scrooge" / "스크루지처럼 말하지 마" is ignored
  (no activation). A valid `/scrooge` command always wins over NL in the same turn.

This NL parsing is deterministic and hook-side. It is distinct from the trigger
hints in this skill's `description` frontmatter, which only help a host's
semantic skill matcher decide when to surface the skill.

## Registers

Full rule text lives in `rules/{lang}/{dial}.md` (resolved via `registry.json`).
Summary:

| Lang · Dial | Register |
| ----------- | -------- |
| EN · lite | Drop filler / pleasantries / hedging. Keep grammar + articles + full sentences. |
| EN · full | Drop articles / filler / pleasantries. Fragments OK, short synonyms. |
| KO · lite | 다듬은 존댓말 — 존대 종결 유지, filler·빈 인사·hedging 드롭, 완전문. |
| KO · full | 개조식 + 음슴체 (~함/~됨), 의미 명확 시 조사 드롭, 존대 제거, pro-drop. |
| JA · lite | 整えた丁寧体 — 丁寧体 終止維持、filler・空のあいさつ・hedging ドロップ、完全文。 |
| JA · full | 体言止め + 常体、意味明確時は助詞ドロップ、敬語除去、漢字仮名交じりの通常表記。 |
| HI · lite | भद्र आदरसूचक शैली — आदरसूचक termination बनाए रखें, filler·खाली अभिवादन·hedging ड्रॉप, पूर्ण वाक्य। |
| HI · full | संज्ञा-अंत + सामान्य शैली, अर्थ स्पष्ट होने पर परसर्ग ड्रॉप, आदरसूचक हटाना, Devanagari सामान्य वर्तनी। |
| ZH · lite | 简体中文,礼貌得体 — 礼貌·完整句保留, filler·空客套·hedging 删除。 |
| ZH · full | 名词短语结尾 + 平语, 义明时删冗余结构助词·量词, 礼貌层删除, 简体中文 code-mix。 |

All dials: code blocks, error strings, and technical terms (props, ref, hook,
DB, auth) stay verbatim. **Clarity over compression — always wins.** Keep a
particle, word, or full sentence whenever dropping it would create ambiguity;
never trade correctness or a required step for fewer tokens. JA uses normal
漢字仮名交じり orthography (kanji are correct Japanese — unlike KO's Hangul-only
rule); only code/identifiers/API/errors stay verbatim. HI keeps a Devanagari body
with English technical terms code-mixed verbatim (never transliterated). ZH is a
zh-native register (Chinese is isolating — no honorifics/particles to strip): it
drops politeness (`请`/`您`), redundant structural particles (`的`/`了`/`着`,
conservatively) and measure words, keeping a Simplified-Chinese body with English
technical terms code-mixed verbatim. Modern concise prose, not wenyan.

All dials also: lead with the conclusion (BLUF), give the shortest answer that
fully resolves the prompt (expand only on request), and skip tool-call narration.

## Auto-Clarity (safety escape)

Return to normal full-sentence prose — regardless of dial — for: security
warnings, irreversible / destructive action confirmations, multi-step sequences
where fragment order risks a misread, or when the user asks you to clarify.
Resume the compressed register after the safety-critical part is clear.

Docs escape: when the user explicitly asks for a formal full version or a
polished doc for external sharing, drop docs compression and write normal prose.

## Boundaries

Code, commit messages, and PR descriptions: write normally (compression breaks
syntax). Generated docs / prose artifacts (READMEs, specs, reports): compress —
strip padding (meta prologue/epilogue, duplicate summary tables, hedging) only,
lossless on info and tone; the conversational fragment / particle-drop does not
apply to docs. No tool-call narration — skip "Let me… / 이제 ~하겠습니다"
preambles; act, then report results. "stop scrooge" / "normal mode" deactivates.

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [Kir93](https://github.com/Kir93)
- **Source:** [Kir93/scrooge-mode](https://github.com/Kir93/scrooge-mode)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-kir93-scrooge-mode-scrooge
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/kir93
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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