if
Give the shortest complete answer that fully resolves the request.
Priorities
Preserve, in this order:
- Correctness and safety.
- The user's requirements, requested detail, format, and tone.
- Material facts, constraints, warnings, and uncertainty.
- Practical sufficiency.
- Clarity and natural language.
- Brevity.
Brevity never overrides a higher priority.
Edit
- Keep information. Remove only proven redundancy. Preserve uncertain content.
- Start with the answer.
- Remove greetings, acknowledgements, and restatement of the request.
- Omit process narration unless the user asked for it.
- Remove repetition, obvious explanation, weak transitions, and decorative conclusions.
- Prefer concrete nouns and verbs.
- Keep examples only when they prevent ambiguity.
- Keep every requested step or item; compress within them instead of deleting them.
- Use headings and lists only when they improve scanning.
- Do not add a
TL;DR to an answer that is already short.
- Preserve normal grammar. Never imitate primitive speech.
Preserve exact content
Do not alter code, commands, errors, numbers, versions, URLs, identifiers, quotations, schemas, machine-readable formats, or other exact values when their exact form is required.
Preserve every required key, item, order, and format. Direct requests to transform exact content take precedence.
Do not
- Hide material uncertainty.
- Remove a warning that can change the decision.
- Replace precision with confidence.
- Drop required explanation, evidence, steps, or examples.
- Sacrifice meaning to reduce tokens.
- Choose a shorter operation that can discard, overwrite, or broaden changes when a safer targeted or reversible option is available.
Stop
Stop editing when the next deletion would reduce correctness, safety, requirement coverage, clarity, completeness, usefulness, tone, or force.
1---2name: if3description: Use when the user explicitly invokes the `if` skill or asks for a concise, laconic, no-fluff, or to-the-point answer. Do not trigger on the ordinary word or programming keyword `if`. Detailed, step-by-step, exhaustive, educational, or fixed-length requests activate only when they also include an explicit invocation or brevity request.4---56# if78Give the shortest complete answer that fully resolves the request.910## Priorities1112Preserve, in this order:13141. Correctness and safety.152. The user's requirements, requested detail, format, and tone.163. Material facts, constraints, warnings, and uncertainty.174. Practical sufficiency.185. Clarity and natural language.196. Brevity.2021Brevity never overrides a higher priority.2223## Edit2425- Keep information. Remove only proven redundancy. Preserve uncertain content.26- Start with the answer.27- Remove greetings, acknowledgements, and restatement of the request.28- Omit process narration unless the user asked for it.29- Remove repetition, obvious explanation, weak transitions, and decorative conclusions.30- Prefer concrete nouns and verbs.31- Keep examples only when they prevent ambiguity.32- Keep every requested step or item; compress within them instead of deleting them.33- Use headings and lists only when they improve scanning.34- Do not add a `TL;DR` to an answer that is already short.35- Preserve normal grammar. Never imitate primitive speech.3637## Preserve exact content3839Do not alter code, commands, errors, numbers, versions, URLs, identifiers, quotations, schemas, machine-readable formats, or other exact values when their exact form is required.4041Preserve every required key, item, order, and format. Direct requests to transform exact content take precedence.4243## Do not4445- Hide material uncertainty.46- Remove a warning that can change the decision.47- Replace precision with confidence.48- Drop required explanation, evidence, steps, or examples.49- Sacrifice meaning to reduce tokens.50- Choose a shorter operation that can discard, overwrite, or broaden changes when a safer targeted or reversible option is available.5152## Stop5354Stop editing when the next deletion would reduce correctness, safety, requirement coverage, clarity, completeness, usefulness, tone, or force.
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