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Keep It Simple

elliotjlt/keep-it-simple

| Before adding abstraction, asks "do we need this now?" Activates when proposing factories, abstract classes, config-driven behavior, or "for future extensibility." Resists over-engineering. Three similar lines are better than a premature abstraction.

1k tokens
context cost
the whole folder, loaded on every use
1
files
instructions only
0
copies elsewhere
how many repositories repackaged it
60
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/ElliotJLT/Claude-Skill-Potions --skill keep-it-simple

How to use it

Copy the folder

Take elliotjlt/keep-it-simple 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.