Complexity Guardrails
Complexity Guardrails helps manage AI responses by setting limits on length and detail, ensuring concise & focused outputs for better clarity.
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Run in terminal (recommended)
claude mcp add noartem-complexity-guardrails npx -- -y @trustedskills/noartem-complexity-guardrails
Or manually add to ~/.claude/settings.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"noartem-complexity-guardrails": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"@trustedskills/noartem-complexity-guardrails"
]
}
}
}Requires Claude Code (claude CLI). Run claude --version to verify your install.
About This Skill
What it does
The noartem-complexity-guardrails skill helps AI agents avoid generating overly complex or verbose responses. It focuses on keeping outputs concise, clear, and directly relevant to the user's query by enforcing length limits and discouraging unnecessary elaboration. This ensures that interactions remain efficient and easy to understand.
When to use it
- Generating summaries: When you need a brief overview of a lengthy document or article.
- Creating concise instructions: For providing step-by-step guides where brevity is crucial.
- Responding to simple questions: To prevent the AI from rambling and delivering only essential information.
- Chatbots needing efficiency: To ensure quick response times and avoid overwhelming users with excessive text.
Key capabilities
- Length constraints on generated output.
- Discourages verbose language.
- Focuses on direct relevance to user prompts.
Example prompts
- "Summarize this article in under 100 words."
- "Give me the steps for baking a cake, briefly."
- "What is the capital of France? Answer concisely."
Tips & gotchas
The skill's effectiveness depends on clear instructions regarding desired output length. While it aims to reduce complexity, it might occasionally require more context in prompts to achieve optimal results.
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