principle-minimize-reader-load

by michael-denyer2.6k

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Apply when reviewing or shaping code that's hard to trace. Count layers between question and answer, and hidden state in the reader's head; collapse one-caller wrappers and shrink mutable scope.

Install

The skill file stays in the publisher's repository.

Paste the copied command in a terminal. It installs this SKILL.md into that agent.

npx skills add michael-denyer/pstack-claude --skill principle-minimize-reader-load -a cursor -y

Download skill plugins/pstack/skills/principle-minimize-reader-load/SKILL.md on GitHub

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How do I install principle-minimize-reader-load?: Download plugins/pstack/skills/principle-minimize-reader-load/SKILL.md from the publisher, or copy the path and open the repository. PlugMCP lists the skill and does not host the file.
Where does principle-minimize-reader-load live?: The publisher keeps it at https://github.com/michael-denyer/pstack-claude.
Which agents can use principle-minimize-reader-load?: Claude, Cursor, and Codex can read a SKILL.md you add from the publisher's repository.

name: principle-minimize-reader-load description: "Apply when reviewing or shaping code that's hard to trace. Count layers between question and answer, and hidden state in the reader's head; collapse one-caller wrappers and shrink mutable scope." user-invocable: false

Minimize Reader Load

Maintainability is the work a reader must do to understand code. Track two axes: layers to trace (indirections between the question and the answer) and state to hold (hidden or mutable context the reader must keep in their head). LOC, cyclomatic complexity, and "clean architecture" are proxies. Reader load is the thing that matters. The two axes are independent. A flat file with 50 globals can be as hard to reason about as a 6-layer adapter stack. Guard both. This is the human analog of . Working memory is finite for readers too.