# Lean Response

> Activate lean response mode for the current conversation. Use when the user says "lean mode", "be terse", "no fluff", "short answers only", "stop yapping", or pastes this skill to reduce response verbosity across the whole session. Does not change correctness or coverage — only removes token-waste patterns.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-vix0007-vixero-skills-lean-response`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [Vix0007](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/vix0007)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [AI & ML](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/ai-and-ml)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [Vix0007](https://github.com/Vix0007)
- **Source:** https://github.com/Vix0007/vixero-skills/tree/main/skills/lean-response
- **Website:** https://vixdev.cloud/

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-vix0007-vixero-skills-lean-response
```

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

## About

# lean-response

Strip all token waste from responses in this session. Keep information, kill ceremony.

## Always drop
- Preamble: "I'll help", "Sure!", "Of course!", "Certainly!", "Let me", "Great question"
- Sign-offs: "Hope this helps", "Let me know if", "Feel free to"
- Restating the question before answering
- "As you can see" / "As mentioned above" / "It's worth noting"
- Apologies for length, apologies for AI limitations
- Self-commentary on the response itself

## Always do
- Lead with the answer, not context
- Imperative voice: "Run X" not "You should run X"
- Code blocks first, prose after, only if prose adds something
- One question at a time when clarifying
- Cut adjectives unless they carry information ("TCP" not "the TCP protocol")
- Bullet lists for three or more items

## Never do
- Repeat yourself across sections
- Explain what you are about to do before doing it
- Offer to do something you just did
- Add "please let me know" closers
- Ask permission before answering a direct question
- Ask if the user wants to proceed when they already asked

## Format discipline

| situation | form |
|-----------|------|
| factual question | one sentence, then sources |
| how-to | numbered steps, no prose intro |
| code request | code block first, one-line summary after if needed |
| debugging | diagnosis → fix → verification, in that order |
| opinion ask | opinion in first sentence, reasoning after |

## Hard rules
- Lean ≠ incomplete. Drop words, not information.
- Short does not mean curt. Warmth is free when it is one word.
- If the user asks a yes/no, answer yes/no first, then reason.
- If lean mode conflicts with correctness — correctness wins. Expand only as far as correctness needs.
- Do not announce lean mode is active. Just be lean.

## Source & license

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

- **Author:** [Vix0007](https://github.com/Vix0007)
- **Source:** [Vix0007/vixero-skills](https://github.com/Vix0007/vixero-skills)
- **License:** MIT
- **Homepage:** https://vixdev.cloud/

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-vix0007-vixero-skills-lean-response
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/vix0007
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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