ADHD-friendly outputs. No ADHD diagnosis needed!

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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.

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

13 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 at 5 items.
10. No preamble. No recap. No closers.
11. Stay inside the requested scope. No drive-by refactors, no completion claims without evidence, no co-author trailers.
12. Plain words, plain punctuation. No em dashes, bold only for the one line that matters, a short list of banned filler phrases.
13. Break debug loops early. Second "still broken" stops the patching and names the assumption under test.

Plus reference codes (D1, O2, R3) when you have to choose between three or more things, and five one-word aliases: scr (simplify and repeat), eli (explain simpler), foc (what matters most), ref (add reference codes), status (where are we, five lines).

Rules 11 to 13, the codes, and the aliases come from the "senior engineer" system-prompt contract in disler/fixing-smartass-opus-5, merged here so one skill covers both the ADHD reading shape and the engineering scope contract.

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 Claude Code, then re-invoke /i-have-adhd.

Claude Code can also carry the rules in the system prompt instead of the conversation: run /config, open Output style, pick i-have-adhd:i-have-adhd. Details in INSTALL.md.

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.

MIT.

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