tighten-your-output

Tighten your output

A drift corrector for terseness discipline. The shared method (re-anchor, audit the work in flight, correct forward, report) lives in ${CLAUDE_PLUGIN_ROOT}/context/re-anchor-audit-correct.md. Read it; this file adds only what is specific to terseness discipline.

The discipline this re-anchors

Say it in fewer words or lines when nothing of value is lost. Two surfaces, resolved separately per the method doc's ladder.

Code, a standards convention owns this

The source of truth is the consuming organization's simpler-code convention: prefer the smaller form when it costs no correctness, readability, test coverage, observability, or convention conformance. Read it where it lives; re-anchor its two load-bearing parts rather than restating them:

• its named failure modes, the canonical smells a reduction must not introduce (speculative generality, the wrong abstraction, YAGNI);
• its constraints never traded for line count. Clarity, test coverage, error handling at boundaries, established conventions, and observability survive every cut.

When the consuming project declares no such convention, re-anchor that same shape as the portable baseline: fewer lines is the default only when none of those constraints is spent to get there.

Markdown. A flagged standards gap with a routing owner

Say the same thing in fewer words with no semantic loss. Drop filler, hedging, and restatement, never a directive, qualifier, threshold, or example. Tightening selects what to include; it does not compress prose into fragments, abbreviations, arrow chains, or jargon, and it keeps complete sentences a reader who did not watch the work can follow. When brevity and readability conflict, readability wins. Prose terseness usually has no dedicated standards convention: when the consuming project's standards source declares one, route through it; when it does not, that is a flagged gap (a candidate upstream standards addition), not license to invent a rubric in this skill. Route reader-facing prose and batch prose work per the Routing section below.