Principle Laziness Protocol Agent Skill

Apply when refactoring, evaluating diff size, or tempted to add abstractions, layers, or signal threading. Bias toward deletion and the smallest change that solves the problem.

138 tokens

context cost

SKILL.md, read when the skill is used

files

instructions only

copies elsewhere

how many repositories repackaged it

2 793

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/backnotprop/pstack --skill principle-laziness-protocol

The instruction itself

1 sections, as written by the author

Laziness Protocol

Consolidate decisions. Do not repeat the same choice in several places. Put it behind one source of truth and pass the result as a simple flag.
Minimize the diff. Make the smallest change that solves the problem. Fewer lines beat "elegant" boilerplate.

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take backnotprop/principle-laziness-protocol 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.