tighten-your-output

Tighten your output

A drift corrector for terseness discipline. The method, re-anchor, audit the work in flight, correct forward, report, and the tone that firing this is not an accusation, 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. No standards doc yet (flagged gap)

Say the same thing in fewer words with no semantic loss. Drop filler, hedging, and restatement, never a directive, qualifier, threshold, or example. Unlike the code side, prose terseness usually has no dedicated standards convention to discipline: when the consuming project's standards source declares one, route through it; when it does not, treat that as a flagged gap (a candidate upstream standards addition), not license to invent a rubric in this skill. The operative safety net for prose reduction is a compress capability's semantic-diff discipline. Route batch prose work there when that capability is installed, and otherwise run that same discipline in-thread rather than hand-rolling criteria here.