I-have-ADHD skill
Shares rank 18 of 23 agent skills by recommenders
People recommend it for cutting verbose, wall-of-text answers from Claude so the point comes first. Critics say the effect fades over long sessions.
People recommend it for cutting verbose, wall-of-text answers from Claude so the point comes first. Critics say the effect fades over long sessions.
14 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 9
- criticize it
- 5
- approval share
- 64%
Recommended in 2 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 9 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 1.8 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 2 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Cuts output verbosity noticeably
“I quite like the /i-have-adhd plugin which attempts to curtail the verbosity and habit of burying the point.”
Comment from 11 Aug 2026 in “Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb” “it should cut down the output verbosity by quite a fair bit”
Comment from 10 Aug 2026 in “How I use LLMs to learn complex topics” “That cuts a lot of the unnecessary verbosity.”
Comment from 14 Sep 2026 in “Claude is a Contrarian” Forces Opus to get to the point
“I quite like the /i-have-adhd plugin which attempts to curtail the verbosity and habit of burying the point.”
Comment from 11 Aug 2026 in “Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb” “helps to force Opus to get to the point”
Comment from 14 Aug 2026 in “Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?” Clear difference with Opus 5
“are also pretty good as well with Opus 5”
Comment from 19 Sep 2026 in “Bring back Opus 4.8 in Claude Code” “The difference is night and day.”
Comment from 9 Sep 2026 in “I-have-ADHD: A skill to stop coding agents from burying the answer”
Other agent skills people recommend
The four most recommended other agent skills, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Superpowers | 138 | 72 | 66% | 12 | 4 mo7 owners | — |
| Claude Skills | 59 | 26 | 69% | 11 | — | Approved |
| grill-me skill by Matt Pocock | 39 | 2 | 95% | 8 | — | Approved |
| Get Shit Done | 31 | 32 | 49% | 7 | — | — |
| I-have-ADHD skillThis page | 9 | 5 | 64% | 2 | — | — |
What people said
13 of the 15 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“are also pretty good as well with Opus 5”
“That cuts a lot of the unnecessary verbosity.”
“The difference is night and day.”
“this seems to focus very much on telling the user what to do, whereas usually I'm telling Claude what to do”
“it seems to quickly revert to crappy writing”
“the name of this plugin is confusing and confused”
“no skill is up to the task of keeping Claudeuage in check”
“You can /i-have-adhd when you get a wall of text and are exasperated.”
“only maintain the conciseness for a few turns at most before they completely forget”
“Is there a reason this needs 8.7k lines across 59 files”
“helps to force Opus to get to the point”
“I quite like the /i-have-adhd plugin which attempts to curtail the verbosity and habit of burying the point.”
“it should cut down the output verbosity by quite a fair bit”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.