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Claude Code skill that rewrites the previous response to be skimmable

A developer created a Claude Code skill that rewrites the previous response into a skimmable format. The skill restructures content with numbered steps, concrete next actions, and specific time estimates, suppressing tangents and preamble.

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| description | Rewrite your previous response to be skimmable |

|---| Rewrite your most recent response so it can be skimmed in seconds. Same content, reshaped, not a summary:

  • Lead with the next action (command/path/snippet first, prose after).
  • Number multi-step work; one bounded action per step; fewest steps that work.
  • End with one concrete next action doable in under two minutes.
  • Suppress tangents: finish the first issue, offer any second as a separate question.
  • Restate current state ("step 3 of 5 done: ...").
  • Specific time estimates in concrete units, never "some work."
  • Make completed work visible in concrete terms.
  • Matter-of-fact on errors: state cause and fix, no "uh oh."
  • Cap lists at 5; past that, split "do now" vs "later."
  • No preamble, no recap, no closing pleasantries.

Then delete: any opening sentence announcing what you're about to do, any closing "anything else?", any "by the way" sidebar, any hedging that adds nothing.

This is a one-shot rewrite of the last response only. Do NOT change your style for later responses. Output only the rewritten response.

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