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Agent skill

Debloat

by LilMGenius in LilMGenius/paperthin

Compress an artifact that has accreted into bloat — padding, over-qualification, fused sentences, walls of enumeration, adjacent restatement — down to its load-bearing density, meaning preserved.

MITAuto-check passedDevelopment

Install Debloat

skills CLI
$ npx skills add LilMGenius/paperthin --skill debloat -a claude-code

Project install by default; add -g for ~/.claude/skills/.

GitHub CLI
$ gh skill install LilMGenius/paperthin debloat --agent claude-code

Project scope by default; add --scope user for a personal install. Needs GitHub CLI 2.90.0 or later (public preview).

Manual copy
$ git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/LilMGenius/paperthin.git skills-src && mkdir -p .claude/skills && cp -r skills-src/skills/depth/debloat .claude/skills/debloat && rm -rf skills-src

Use ~/.claude/skills/ instead of .claude/skills for a personal install. The folder must contain SKILL.md.

Claude Code skills documentation · loads skills from .claude/skills/

Facts

Skill name
debloat
GitHub stars
1.1k
Token cost
~813 tokens
SKILL.md length
450 words
Files
1
Skills in repo
28
Repo updated
First seen
Licence
MIT

At a glance

Compress an artifact that has accreted into bloat — padding, over-qualification, fused sentences, walls of enumeration, adjacent restatement — down to its load-bearing density, meaning preserved.

  • Works in 6 steps: Pin the artifact and read it end to end;… → Find the bloat, not the content: padding… → Compress in place: cut the padding,… → …
  • Prose is correct and current but has grown verbose
  • SKILL.md covers Goal, Workflow, Rules and Verification
  • Instructions only: no scripts, shell commands, URLs or credentials in SKILL.md

What it does

Debloat is an agent skill from LilMGenius/paperthin. Compress an artifact that has accreted into bloat — padding, over-qualification, fused sentences, walls of enumeration, adjacent restatement — down to its load-bearing density, meaning preserved. Use when prose is correct and current but has grown verbose or patched-over and you want it tight without a full rewrite.

Its SKILL.md is about 810 tokens, which your agent loads only when the skill is triggered. It is a single SKILL.md file with no bundled scripts.

It sits in Development. The repository describes itself as: Low-level agentic design patterns. Turning old engineering wisdom into reflexes your agent reaches for on its own—on any agent. The licence is MIT.

When your agent uses it

  • Prose is correct and current but has grown verbose
  • Patched-over and you want it tight without a full rewrite

Example prompts

  • “/debloat”

Workflow steps

6 steps, taken from the first numbered list in SKILL.md.

  1. Pin the artifact and read it end to end; note in one line what each section must convey — the load-bearing content that has to survive.
  2. Find the bloat, not the content: padding that adds length but not meaning; a qualifier or parenthetical the sentence holds without; a…
  3. Compress in place: cut the padding, split the fused sentence or drop its dead clause, collapse the wall, keep a repeated point once. Move…
  4. Preserve every load-bearing claim — a rule, fact, constraint, or example that carries weight. If cutting a word would lose one, keep the…
  5. When the bloat is really duplication across artifacts, or the content has drifted stale, stop and name it: hand duplication to ssotize and…
  6. Re-read cold and cut again — the first pass always leaves some.

What it can do on your machine

Read from SKILL.md and the folder at commit 7d5dc62. It shows what the files ask for, not the result of running them.

  • Tool permissions

    Pre-approves nothing: there is no allowed-tools line, so your agent's usual permission prompts apply.

    From allowed-tools in the SKILL.md frontmatter.

  • Runs code

    No scripts in the folder and no shell commands in SKILL.md.

    From the folder's file list and the shell code blocks in SKILL.md.

  • Network

    No URLs in SKILL.md.

    From URLs in SKILL.md, links to its own repository left out.

  • Credentials

    Names no API keys, tokens, secrets or passwords.

    From names ending in _API_KEY, _TOKEN, _SECRET, _KEY or _PASSWORD in SKILL.md.

Context cost

Debloat loads about 813 tokens when it runs. Until then it costs about 81 tokens; SKILL.md has 450 words of instructions outside code blocks.

Always · name and description, kept in context so the agent knows when to use it
~81
When it runs · the whole SKILL.md, loaded when a task matches
~813

Estimates: characters ÷ 4, the usual rule of thumb; real counts depend on the model's tokenizer. Scripts and assets cost tokens only if the agent reads them.

Safety

Auto-check passed

The automated check found no risky patterns in SKILL.md.

Automated static check — not a guarantee. Review scripts before installing. It scans the text of SKILL.md for risky patterns (piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files, hidden Unicode, destructive commands); files beside SKILL.md are not scanned.

SKILL.md

The full file from LilMGenius/paperthin at commit 7d5dc62, republished under its MIT licence (© LilMGenius). 450 words, ~813 tokens.

Download SKILL.mdSave it as .claude/skills/debloat/SKILL.md (or your agent's skills folder).
name
debloat
description
Compress an artifact that has accreted into bloat — padding, over-qualification, fused sentences, walls of enumeration, adjacent restatement — down to its load-bearing density, meaning preserved. Use when prose is correct and current but has grown verbose or patched-over and you want it tight without a full rewrite.
disable-model-invocation
true

Cut a bloated artifact to its load-bearing minimum: same meaning, fewer words.

Goal

An artifact that is correct and current can still rot a second way: it accretes. Each edit bolts a qualifier onto the nearest sentence, a rule gets restated wherever it might apply, an enumeration grows into a wall — until a reader must study what they should skim. debloat compresses that bloat to its load-bearing density: every claim that carries weight survives, every word that does not is cut. It is not a rewrite (re0), a dedup (ssotize), or a tell-remover (dedash, detool) — it is a density pass on prose that is otherwise fine.

Workflow

  1. Pin the artifact and read it end to end; note in one line what each section must convey — the load-bearing content that has to survive.
  2. Find the bloat, not the content: padding that adds length but not meaning; a qualifier or parenthetical the sentence holds without; a fused sentence carrying three ideas; a wall of enumeration where a rule plus a short list would do; a point restated within reach of itself; litigation-history (why-we-decided-it) where the rule alone suffices.
  3. Compress in place: cut the padding, split the fused sentence or drop its dead clause, collapse the wall, keep a repeated point once. Move nothing to another artifact and re-derive nothing.
  4. Preserve every load-bearing claim — a rule, fact, constraint, or example that carries weight. If cutting a word would lose one, keep the word.
  5. When the bloat is really duplication across artifacts, or the content has drifted stale, stop and name it: hand duplication to ssotize and drift to re0. debloat only tightens.
  6. Re-read cold and cut again — the first pass always leaves some.
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Rules

  • Cut words, never load-bearing claims. Every rule, fact, and constraint that was there is still there; only the density changed.
  • Preserve the artifact's voice and structure; compress within it, do not re-style it.
  • Not a rewrite, a dedup, or a tell-remover: re-derive nothing (re0), move nothing to another home (ssotize), and leave em-dashes and stack nouns to dedash/detool.
  • Respect intended richness: human-facing prose meant to teach or orient (a quickstart, a worked example) earns its length — compress the bloat, not the accessibility.
  • A pass that finds nothing genuinely bloated changes nothing.
  • Mutate with edit-safety: assert each target exists (report a MISS, never a silent no-op), edit unicode-safe (PYTHONUTF8=1), replace per occurrence, and script a large structural move.

Verification

Before finishing:

  1. Every load-bearing claim present before is present after — only words were cut.
  2. The result reads tighter to a cold reader, and reads as intended-terse, not amputated.
  3. Anything that was duplication or drift, not bloat, was handed to ssotize/re0, not force-compressed.

© LilMGenius, MIT. Rendered from Markdown: HTML in the file is shown as text, images as links, and headings moved down two levels. Raw file

Files

Just SKILL.md in skills/depth/debloat of LilMGenius/paperthin.

Open the folder on GitHubat commit 7d5dc62

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Questions about Debloat

What does Debloat do?

Compress an artifact that has accreted into bloat — padding, over-qualification, fused sentences, walls of enumeration, adjacent restatement — down to its load-bearing density, meaning preserved. Debloat is an agent skill from LilMGenius/paperthin. Compress an artifact that has accreted into bloat — padding, over-qualification, fused sentences, walls of enumeration, adjacent restatement — down to its load-bearing density, meaning preserved.

When should I use Debloat?

Debloat fits situations like: prose is correct and current but has grown verbose; patched-over and you want it tight without a full rewrite.

How do I install Debloat in Claude Code?

Run `npx skills add LilMGenius/paperthin --skill debloat -a claude-code`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/depth/debloat in LilMGenius/paperthin) into .claude/skills/debloat in your project. Claude Code loads it when a task matches its description.

How do I install Debloat in Codex?

Run `npx skills add LilMGenius/paperthin --skill debloat -a codex`. Or copy the skill folder (skills/depth/debloat in LilMGenius/paperthin) into .agents/skills/debloat in your project. Codex loads it when a task matches its description.

Can I use Debloat in Cursor, Gemini CLI or GitHub Copilot?

Cursor, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and OpenCode also load SKILL.md folders. With the skills CLI, run `npx skills add LilMGenius/paperthin --skill debloat -a cursor` (or -a gemini-cli, github-copilot or opencode for the others). To copy it by hand, put the folder in .cursor/skills/debloat, .gemini/skills/debloat, .github/skills/debloat and .opencode/skills/debloat in your project.

What does Debloat need to run?

SKILL.md names no scripts, command-line tools or credentials: Debloat is instructions for the agent only.

Does Debloat access the network?

SKILL.md contains no URLs. Any network use would come from the scripts or tools the agent runs. This is read from the text; nothing was executed.

Is Debloat safe to install?

Our automated static check of SKILL.md found no risky patterns, such as piping downloads into a shell, reading credential files or hidden Unicode. It is not a guarantee. Review the folder before installing.

What licence does Debloat use?

Debloat is published under the MIT licence (the repository's licence). It allows redistribution, so the full SKILL.md is shown on this page.

How many tokens does Debloat use?

About 813 tokens (SKILL.md is roughly 3.3k characters). Agents keep only the skill's name and description in context until a task matches; then they load SKILL.md in full.

What are the alternatives to Debloat?

Skills that share tags, products or a category with Debloat: Vercel Composition Patterns (supabase/supabase, 111k stars), Finishing a Development Branch (obra/superpowers, 297k stars), Typescript Advanced Types (rolling-scopes/rsschool-app, 10k stars) and PR Babysitter (openinterpreter/openinterpreter, 69k stars). The comparison table on this page puts their stars, adoption, token cost, safety result and licence side by side.

Who maintains Debloat?

LilMGenius (a GitHub user) maintains it in LilMGenius/paperthin, which has 1,130 GitHub stars. The repository holds 28 skills in this directory. The repository was last updated on October 1, 2026.

Source: LilMGenius/paperthin on GitHub. Facts on this page come from the repository at the commit we read; the author's words are quoted as theirs.