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BitterPillEngineering
Audits any AI instruction set for over-prompting using the core test — would a smarter model make this rule unnecessary? Applies Five Questions to every rule (Claude already does this? Contradiction? Redundant? One-off fix? Vague?) then classifies as CUT/RESOLVE/MERGE/EVALUATE/SHARPEN/MOVE/KEEP. Workflows: Audit (full system, token savings), QuickCheck (single file). Principle: less scaffolding = better output. USE WHEN BPE, bitter pill, audit setup, over-prompting, trim instructions, dead weight, simplify setup, clean up CLAUDE.md. NOT FOR attacking logical flaws in ideas (use RedTeam).
Why this score
This repo hosts 10 skills, so its 19,521 stars are split between them (about 1,952 each) for scoring.
Popularity score: 78/100 from public GitHub signals only. It shows how widely used and maintained this is, not how well it works. Not included yet: the fake-star check. The security scan is shown separately and doesn't change the score. How we rank
Security
Scanned Oct 20, 2026 at commit 5e2f2e8c0abd, with Cisco's open-source skill-scanner.
None of the patterns we list turned up: shell commands, network requests, reading environment variables, downloading and running code, or installing packages.
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