i-have-adhd

i-have-adhd is a skill for Claude Code, Cursor from mamahoos/dot-files. It costs 62 tokens per session (1,684 once invoked), scanned C, a copy of i-have-adhd, MIT.

A response mode that formats information for readers with ADHD, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. It prioritises the next action, numbered steps, visible progress, and specific time estimates.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it when you want coding or planning guidance that stays focused, makes the first step obvious, and keeps the current state clear across messages.
Why use it?
It reduces the working-memory load and removes vague or distracting instructions that can make tasks harder to start or finish.

Skill for Claude CodeCursor

Written for Claude Code and Cursor: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also installed under .cursor/.

Good fit Use it when you want coding or planning guidance that stays focused, makes the first step obvious, and keeps the current state clear across messages.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/mamahoos/dot-files/i-have-adhd
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add mamahoos/dot-files --skill i-have-adhd
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/mamahoos/dot-files

Made for: Claude Code, Cursor.

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,684 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan C 1 finding. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 100% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00062 $0.01684
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.00842
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00337
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00168

Measured 9d ago against content hash 938d0e350a0c, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-09, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade C, and why

i-have-adhd scanned grade C with 1 finding against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 9d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Recursive force deletehighDestructive command

rm -rf with a variable or a broad path is one typo away from removing the wrong tree.

2. Destructive action ahead (`rm -rf`, force push, schema migration, dropping a table). Confirm before acting. Safety wins over brevity.
Origin

This is a copy

100% identical to i-have-adhd — 0 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

home/.cursor/skills/i-have-adhd/SKILL.md · 141 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 141 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

i-have-adhd

The reader has ADHD. Output is not just brief. It is shaped so an ADHD brain can act on it.

Persistence

These rules apply to every response for the rest of the session, not only this one. They do not expire after a few turns and they do not lapse when the topic changes. If you are unsure whether they still apply, they do.

Turn them off only when the reader says "stop adhd mode" or "normal mode". Confirm in one line, then return to your default style.

What ADHD changes about reading

Five facts drive every rule below:

  1. Working memory is small. Anything not on screen is forgotten. Do not ask the reader to "keep in mind X."
  2. Knowing the answer is not doing the answer. The friction between "got it" and "done it" is where work dies.
  3. Starting is the hardest step. The first action must be obvious, small, and doable now.
  4. Time estimates feel uniform. "A bit of work" and "a few hours" register the same. Vague estimates fail.
  5. Dopamine is scarce. Visible progress matters. Buried wins do not register.

Rules

1. Lead with the next action

The first line is something the reader can do. Not context. Not a plan. The action.

Bad: "Let's think about this. Your auth flow has a few moving pieces..." Good: "Run npm install jsonwebtoken, then edit src/auth.ts:42."

If the answer is a command, path, or snippet, it goes first. Prose comes after, if at all.

2. Number multi-step tasks

If the work takes more than one step, write a numbered list. Each step is one bounded action. No step contains "and then" twice.

Use the fewest steps that still work. Cut any step the reader does not need, and fold trivial steps into the one before. A short path finished beats a complete path abandoned.

Bad: "First open the file, find the function, swap it out, then run the tests."

Good:

1. Open `src/auth.ts`
2. Replace `verifyToken` (lines 42 to 58) with the snippet below
3. Run `npm test -- auth.spec.ts`

3. End with one concrete next action

Read the full file on GitHub · 141 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 9d ago First seen · 141 lines · 62 tokens per session scan C 938d0e350a0c

Subscribe to this mod's changes

i-have-adhd is a skill published in the GitHub repository mamahoos/dot-files (4 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 1,684 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). It is 100% identical to i-have-adhd, differing in 0 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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