Surgical

albertobarnabo/surgical

> Forces Claude to match output scope exactly to what was requested. Triggers on any bounded coding request — "fix X", "add Y", "write a function/script that Z" — at the moment of writing cases, tests, docstrings, type annotations, CLI flags, config options, one-time abstractions, or refactors of surrounding code. Does NOT trigger when error handling, tests, or validation are the explicit subject of the request, or when the user asked for a complete or production-ready implementation. The best code is code you didn't write.

2k tokens

context cost

the whole folder, loaded on every use

files

instructions only

copies elsewhere

how many repositories repackaged it

stars on the repo

on the repository, not the skill itself

Install

one command, takes just this skill from the repository

npx skills add https://github.com/albertobarnabo/lazy-cat --skill surgical

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take albertobarnabo/surgical from the repository into ~/.claude/skills for personal use, or into .claude/skills inside a project.

Check the name does not clash

The agent identifies a skill by the name field in its header. Two skills with the same name cannot sit side by side — one of them will be ignored.