i-have-adhd

i-have-adhd is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from seaworld008/Commonly-used-high-value-skills. It costs 55 tokens per session (1,922 once invoked), scanned C, a copy of i-have-adhd, MIT.

A response format that adapts instructions for people with ADHD, a condition that can make attention, working memory, and task initiation harder. It puts the next action first, numbers steps, repeats the current state, and avoids unrelated detail.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to structure coding tasks, plans, explanations, and progress updates with clear next steps and concrete time estimates.
Why use it?
It turns general answers into smaller, more visible actions and reduces the effort needed to start and track work.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for Claude Code and Codex: disable-model-invocation in frontmatter, but also agents/openai.yaml present.

Good fit Use it to structure coding tasks, plans, explanations, and progress updates with clear next steps and concrete time estimates.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/seaworld008/commonly-used-high-value-skills/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 seaworld008/Commonly-used-high-value-skills --skill i-have-adhd
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/seaworld008/Commonly-used-high-value-skills

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 55 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,922 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 92% 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 $0.00055 $0.01922
Opus 5.5 $0.00022 $0.00769
Sonnet 5.5 $0.00011 $0.00384
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00192

Measured today against content hash bcfbaa331272, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, 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 today.

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

92% identical to i-have-adhd — 14 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.

openclaw-skills/i-have-adhd/SKILL.md · 153 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 153 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: "Edit src/auth.ts:42 to update the token validation."

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

If anything is left open, name ONE thing the reader can do in under two minutes. Even "open the file" counts.

Read the full file on GitHub · 153 lines

Files

What ships with it

3 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

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. today Changed bcfbaa331272
  2. 13d ago Changed 62cd25b02b1d
  3. 28d ago First seen · 153 lines · 55 tokens per session scan C ae7f01da2520

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i-have-adhd is a skill published in the GitHub repository seaworld008/Commonly-used-high-value-skills (73 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 55 tokens to every session and 1,922 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it C with 1 finding (recursive force delete). It is 92% identical to i-have-adhd, differing in 14 lines, and is treated as a copy.