{"slug": "stop-coding-agents-from-writing-prolix-comments", "title": "Stop coding agents from writing prolix comments", "summary": "A new Claude Code skill called 'crispy-comments' automatically prunes verbose code comments, removing incidental history, defensive justifications, commented-out code, and ASCII-art banners to keep only comments that help future maintainers. The skill is installed via a curl command and invoked with '/crispy-comments' in Claude Code.", "body_md": "A [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code) skill that prunes code comments down to what actually helps future maintainers.\n\nIt reviews the comments added or changed on the current branch's diff and removes:\n\n- incidental history, defensive justification, and correctness arguments\n- comments that restate facts likely to change (subclass counts, variant lists, call sites)\n- commented-out code (version control already remembers it)\n- ASCII-art banners and box-drawing section dividers\n\n```\ncurl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DanverImbue/crispy-comments/main/install.sh | bash\n```\n\nThis drops `SKILL.md`\n\ninto `~/.claude/skills/crispy-comments/`\n\n(override with `CLAUDE_SKILLS_DIR`\n\n).\n\nIn Claude Code, invoke it with:\n\n```\n/crispy-comments\n```\n\nIt applies only to the current branch of the current repository.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/stop-coding-agents-from-writing-prolix-comments", "canonical_source": "https://github.com/DanverImbue/crispy-comments", "published_at": "2026-06-24 03:59:09+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-24 04:14:26.271250+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools", "large-language-models", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Claude Code", "DanverImbue", "crispy-comments"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/stop-coding-agents-from-writing-prolix-comments", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/stop-coding-agents-from-writing-prolix-comments.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/stop-coding-agents-from-writing-prolix-comments.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/stop-coding-agents-from-writing-prolix-comments.jsonld"}}